An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life on Earth if it ever hit the planet.

YR4, it appeared, was heading for Earth but more data recorded by the Webb Space Telescope has offered new information about the rocky body in the inner Solar System ...

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 ...

The hefty asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit Earth on December 22, 2032, could instead hit the moon, it is thought. New intel from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has suggested that the ...

The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according to NASA. During the Lyrids ' peak, 10 to 20 fast and bright meteors can be ...

Twenty seven kilos of rocks were recovered, making this the largest fall of its kind since similar meteorites ... the team determined the rock was about 60 centimetres in diameter when it hit Earth's ...

What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we’ve seen in history, and what is ...

A bright green ball of fire that caused a sonic boom and lit up the night sky from southern Queensland to New South Wales overnight was most likely a meteor, says an astrophysicist.

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