If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned — before ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) - If there's an asteroid falling at the stroke of midnight, it must be New Year's Eve in the Alabama city of Wetumpka. Residents are scheduled to start gathering at 9:30 p.m.

(WJW) – A large asteroid will reportedly zip past Earth on Wednesday afternoon during the autumnal equinox, which ushers in the fall season. The asteroid, known as “2021 NY1,” is being tracked by NASA ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...