William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

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

Two hundred craters over 4.5 billion years hardly seems like a big number or cause for concern ... In January, the probability of this asteroid hitting Earth surpassed one percent, which triggered ...

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 ...

Still, it is a pretty big blast, that could damage a city-wide area," Hainaut added. Asteroids have struck Earth ... asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 ...

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.

It was projected to potentially impact the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, and was found to be big enough to destroy ... While the asteroid won’t hit the Earth, it does have a small chance of crashing ...

Because it's big enough to destroy a city ... known large space rocks with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon. Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than a 1% chance of impacting ...