An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to the National ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space Telescope is set to fix its gaze on the ...

Scientists predict a possible city-destroying asteroid impact in 2032. 2024 YR4 poses a 3.1% threat. The odds are rising. Can ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The best example may be a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid that crashed into Earth, killed the dinosaurs and created Chicxulub crater about 65 million years ago. The NEOWISE mission started ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...