ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

A medium-sized asteroid could bring dramatic changes to the Earth – in unexpected ways, according to a new simulation. A new simulation looked at what would happen if the Earth collided with an ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

A building-sized asteroid, classified as 'potentially hazardous', will make a close flyby of Earth this week, and you can watch the event through a household telescope or via a free online livestream.

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly 2,000 feet landing in the heart of St. Louis could cause a crater nearly 4 miles wide and an earthquake felt as far as 116 miles away, according to an ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A new asteroid discovery has been a popular topic for scientists this year, but what are the actual chances it could impact Earth? Asteroid YR4 2024 was discovered in December ...

The fear of an asteroid collision sometimes haunts our imagination, especially after the cataclysmic event that eradicated ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed in a NASA satellite image. Estimated to have been 700–1,300 feet ...