A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

We can see this in modern technologically driven fears such as UFOlogy. Some hard-core believers in UFOs are not only ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

A large asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass the Planet Earth at a distance of about 3.7 million kilometers. Moving at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it presents no immediate danger, but NASA is ...

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter ...