One hundred and seventeen years ago, on June 30, 1908, the world changed. For the people of Eastern Russia, near the Tunguska ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

An asteroid just came careening into our atmosphere, burning up in a dramatic fireball over Russia. The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been ...

An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. ... such as the meteor that struck the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, in 2013. It shattered windows and caused hundreds of injuries over a wide area.

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

If the asteroid does hit the planet, although there is currently only a 1.2 percent chance of that happening, it is predicted that the impact will happen on December 22, 2032, at around 2 p.m. UTC.

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.