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

NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2014 TN17 due to its size and tremendous speed, as these kinds of space rocks are ...

Named 2024 YR4, it was estimated to be between 40m and 90m across, with the potential to cause massive damage if it hit a populated area of the planet. The chances of that happening, however, seemed ...

TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...

The asteroid, which is approximately twice the size of Taj Mahal, belongs to the Apollo group of near-Earth objects (NEOs) ...

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

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

A massive 540-foot asteroid 2014 TN17, which is twice the size of the Taj Mahal, is heading in the direction of Earth at ...

Earth is constantly under attack. The culprit? Asteroids, which regularly hurtle towards our planet. Often, they only just ...

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.

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