NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, with the highest recorded impact probability. The likelihood of it hitting ...

A massive asteroid heads toward Earth with increasing impact probability for 2032. NASA deploys the James Webb Telescope to ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

In a scientific breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of planetary impacts on Earth, a team of researchers from ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is one of the oldest known meteor showers. It occurs when the Earth passes through the debris field ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has ... with the probability of impact rising to 3.1 per cent or one-in-32 odds of impact — the highest probability of ...

The journal ‘Scientific Reports’ has retracted the study that claimed a massive airburst devastated a city in the Jordan ...

As the Lyrid meteor shower lights up the sky tonight, it’s the perfect moment to pair nature’s oldest light show with some ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

When I visited the town of Paiporta recently, the mud and the wrecked cars had been cleared away, but the high-water marks ...

Fireballs are common during the Lyrids due to the exceptional speed that comet Thatcher debris travels at in the stream.