A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

We can see this in modern technologically driven fears such as UFOlogy. Some hard-core believers in UFOs are not only ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in modern history.

Emporia State University's Peterson Planetarium is all about asteroids in March, with a focus on one asteroid in particular.

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

SETI Institute In the News This month at the SETI Institute, exciting developments are shaping our understanding of the ...

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter ...