New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Any risk to Earth from this small asteroid has almost been eliminated, but there's still a chance it could hit the Moon in ...

Another asteroid is threatening the Earth! It's called "2024 YR4" and was only discovered with a telescope in Chile at the end of September. A deadly ...

NASA shared new ground-based telescope observations of the rock, which is estimated be about 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 metres ...

There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

This “impact winter,” the researchers write ... Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at ... The most infamous asteroid impact, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula around 66 million years ago, created the Chicxulub crater and is widely believed to ...

Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...

While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound ... "Depending on the collision parameters, an impact between a medium-sized asteroid and Earth could cause regional to large-scale devastation ...