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

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

Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

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.

A small asteroid, C0WEPC5, is on a collison course and is expected to hit just north of Siberia on Tuesday. The impact is anticipated around 9:45 PM IST, with a potential variation of five minutes ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Scientists referenced two previous asteroid impacts that led to local or regional damage, one in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 and the Tunguska event in Siberia in 1908. The Tunguska event caused ...