"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

A ‘city-destroying’ asteroid is currently on a path towards Earth and could hit as soon as 2032. Now experts have modelled ...

The panic that ensued in 1910 following scientists' bizarre and baseless theories on Halley’s Comet is a testament to just ...

Discovered by Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, the Big Ben-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is now seen as a negligible threat, with ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Industry watchers assert that Comet could change how information is consumed online and that the Search ecosystem will change ...

NASA is additionally working on an asteroid-hunting telescope known as the NEO Surveyor to find near-Earth objects capable of causing significant damage. Set to launch no earlier than June 2028, the ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe for asteroid exploration has arrived at the launch site of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ...