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

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

Still, it is a pretty big ... Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 ... years hardly seems like a big number or cause for concern ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben ... Odds of the rock hitting the Earth stand at 1-in-37,000, but the Moon may not be so lucky. The chance of the asteroid smashing ...

It was projected to potentially impact the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, and was found to be big enough to destroy ... While the asteroid won’t hit the Earth, it does have a small chance of crashing ...

Because it's big ... Earth. For a time, it was the only object among more than 37,000 known large space rocks with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon. Initial projections gave the asteroid ...