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 ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

YR4 has a 1-in-43 chance of impact in 2032 The 55-metre rock could cause city-wide destruction NASA continues monitoring for updates on impact risk ...

However, Bennu, a 500-metre wide lump of rock, has been located by the boffins and their telescopes and they’ve given it a 1 ...

Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of the World Trade Center. What would happen? Scientists have modeled ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

An asteroid with a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting us could cause a catastrophic winter. Originally published on talker.news, ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...