A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

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

"It wouldn't affect the global climate, but it would certainly be a disaster of every proportion. So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

astronomer Nick Moskovitz said. Moskovitz says he's become an "asteroid detective," working to protect Earth from a possible disaster. "Find them before they find you. The sooner you find them ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to avoid disaster. —If an asteroid really threatened the Earth ...

but it would certainly be a disaster of every proportion. So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." What we know about 2024 YR4 and its chances of hitting Earth Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...