When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Imagine a massive meteor crashing into Earth, but this one isn’t from our solar system. A new study, recently uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, sheds light on where and when a meteor from another ...

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

The Leonid meteor shower is about to hit its 2025 peak activity this November. Here's everything to know about the annual ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

Scientists have issued a chilling warning regarding the city-killier asteroid, 2024 YR4, currently racing toward the moon, ...