Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten ...

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

A NASA asteroid detection system discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, and found it has an over one percent chance of hitting Earth. ... The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path. The risk will likely ...

A big asteroid is coming close to Earth. Be excited, not afraid. To be clear, the asteroid is not going to hit Earth — not in our lifetime nor our children’s lifetimes, anyway.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth ...

The biggest real-life test of our planetary defenses was carried out in 2022, when NASA's fridge-sized DART spacecraft smashed into a 160-metre (525-feet) wide asteroid, successfully knocking it ...

Almost. According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid’s current chance of hitting the planet in 2032 is 0.28%, or a 1-in-360 shot.That is a far cry from just ...