It was given the highest ever risk level, but there's some good news.

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

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 ...

NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid approaching Earth this week. The US space agency has identified Asteroid ...

If this asteroid moving towards the Earth at a speed of 61,200 kilometers per hour touches ... 8 million tons of TNT energy which will cause 500 times more destruction than the atomic bombs ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 ... a diameter of roughly three-tenths of a mile (500 meters) - strikes Earth. Scientists have estimated ...