The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

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

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

That's how the last major asteroid to hit Earth slipped through through the net. It went "completely undetected, because it came from the direction of the Sun", Luca explained. He's talking about ...

An asteroid scorched through the atmosphere in 2013 and hit Earth, but boffins knew nothing about it because they couldn't ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

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

A BIG asteroid, roughly the size of an aeroplane, is hurtling towards Earth. NASA is tracking its trajectory closely.

"If an asteroid is hitting the Earth at 17km per second (over 38,000 ... we would have an air blast and that could be just as devastating as if it hit the ground," says Fitzsimmons.