An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video ...

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

On hearing the words "city killer" and "asteroid" in the same sentence, you'd be forgiven for thinking something bad is about to happen. But not to fear. Although an asteroid with the potential to ...

A group of scientists recently published a paper that considers options for dealing with the asteroid — one of which includes a nuclear “disruption” An asteroid may hit the moon in 2032 — and some ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

View post: Winter Storm Warning Map Tracks Powerful Weather Mass After 66.5 Inches of Snow Hits the U.S. Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have ...

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Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...

Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.