The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

Dr Kelly Fast is the space agency’s acting NASA Planetary Defense officer and will explain the technologies being created to ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

Astronomers only just discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 late last year, but it has already become the most hotly observed solar system traveler. That’s because it was initially believed it would have a ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope got a direct look at 2024 YR4, the asteroid once feared to strike Earth, and has determined ...