A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America and left a crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

An asteroid that space experts formerly determined had a small chance of colliding with Earth has been seen for the first time. Nasa said scientists used the Webb Space Telescope to capture more ...