"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Still, it is a pretty big blast, that could damage a city-wide area," Hainaut added. Asteroids have struck Earth ... an asteroid estimated at 10 to 15km wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could ... Odds of the rock hitting the Earth stand at 1-in-37,000, but the Moon may not be so lucky.