NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

An asteroid that sparked concerns about potentially hitting Earth no longer poses a significant threat of slamming into our ...

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Artist concept of Earth during the Late Heavy Bombardment period ... Earth did not receive as much water from the Moon-forming impact as previously theorized. Instead, the data supports the ...

the energy released would be equivalent to roughly eight megatons of TNT -- more than 500 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. “Asteroid impacts have taken place many times in Earth’s ...

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's Sentry System, asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has an impact probability of around 2.2%. Despite the heightened threat level, NASA says it is still too far out ...

A collision that changed everything Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into the Moon near its south pole. The impact, happening at an extremely high speed, created two huge ...

The impact occurred during a period of heavy bombardment in the inner solar system by space ... in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1% ...