An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

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The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

An internal document obtained by CBC’s The Fifth Estate suggests suspect Arsalan Chaudhary may be the principal planner of ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Now experts have modelled what the possible impact of 2024 YR4 – equal to 15,000,000 tons of TNT – could look like.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

There is an estimated 2.3% chance that the 2024 YR4 asteroid is heading our way. Here's everything you need to know about the ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...