Asteroid 2024 YR4 was estimated at up to 300 feet across, with early calculations giving it a 1-in-45 chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032. Scientists estimated a potential impact could ...

Don't look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather ...

An asteroid only about 80 centimetres wide was detected in space just hours before it entered Earth’s atmosphere, giving scientists a rare opportunity to track a natural impact event in real time. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear asteroid defense simulations show how X-rays from a standoff blast could fracture a 160-meter asteroid. (CREDIT: ...

NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer than some satellites.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a ...

Paris: Picture the scene: An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially hazardous — sounds scary, right? Take asteroid 2026 JH2. It was ...

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger. The space rock—1997 NC1—makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 ...

Marco Fenucci is a mathematician who works on calculating the orbits of observed asteroids. He’s a near-Earth object ...

Scientists are meeting this week to figure out how to stop a hypothetical asteroid traveling at 31,000 mph from hitting the Earth. NASA says this is just an exercise and there is no imminent danger of ...