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

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

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

The best estimate is 1.3 million craters over 1 km in diameter on the moon, with another 700,000 or so smaller ones. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 by the Chilean station of the ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

The asteroid which has a length of around 130 to 300 feet was spotted at the end of last year, and was originally projected to have a 1% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. That probability went ...

NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid approaching Earth this week. The US space agency has identified Asteroid ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.