The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The curious minds at What If investigate what would happen if the most devastating asteroid hit Earth tomorrow, revealing impact zones, tsunamis, and mass extinctions.

Scientists estimate a 4.3 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike the Moon, creating a massive crater and ...

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

Athos Salome, dubbed the 'Living Nostradamus', has predicted a range of major world events with uncanny accuracy - and he has ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago ...

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Mikel Brown Jr. returned to Earth with all the subtlety of a meteor crash. A week after saving Louisville with 20 points ...

Weizmann Institute molecular geneticist discovers what makes humans ‘tick’ and causes disruptions during menstruation, ...