The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.