THE football-sized asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.

A new observation estimates that the space rock measures 60 meters and has a 2% chance of impacting the satellite ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The last damaging one to do so appeared undetected on Feb. 15, 2013, over Chelyabinsk, Russia ... Part of the huge region of ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

A massive 540-foot asteroid 2014 TN17, which is twice the size of the Taj Mahal, is heading in the direction of Earth at 77,282 kilometres per hour. Although it is set to safely bypass Earth on March ...

A BIG asteroid, roughly the size of an aeroplane, is hurtling towards Earth. NASA is tracking its trajectory closely., Science News - Times Now ...

A fireball – which is what an asteroid is called once it enters Earth's atmosphere – exploded about 14 miles (22.5km) above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia. Eyewitnesses described the light ...

While celestial distractions are never hard to come by on clear evenings, meteor showers offer a different kind of temptation that encourages investment in a good blanket or chair and permission ...