In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

Researchers reveal how cosmic airbursts strike Earth without craters - and why they may be more common and destructive than ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon.

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

Scientists are monitoring a recently discovered asteroid which could potentially hit the Moon - and calculating its likely consequences on Earth.

The Moon, unlike Earth, lacks an atmosphere to absorb or deflect impact debris. A direct hit from YR4 could create a crater nearly 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) wide, comparable to Arizona’s Meteor Crater.

A new study finds that dying from an asteroid impact is more likely than dying from rabies, though both are rare. The ...

A meteorite, older than Earth itself, crashed through a Georgia home. Estimated to be 4.56 billion years old, this ancient ...

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...