Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

NASA warns that the odds of the 'city-destroying' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth have increased to a one in 43 chance.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what would this impact mean for life on Earth?

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...