The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

A recently discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, sparked the first-ever global alert from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

Despite being a scenario widely pondered by astronomers and Hollywood writers for decades, further observations have since determined YR4 will not impact the Earth in 2032 as originally predicted.

Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

An asteroid is headed toward a close approach ... crater being formed right before their eyes (assuming it hits within our view from Earth), and gain a better understanding of the violent history ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is no longer a threat ... If the asteroid hit the moon in 2032, it could potentially throw debris into surrounding space ...

n huge asteroid that was briefly ... told New Scientist that a Moon hit would be "a great experiment and a perfect opportunity". And on Earth, "telescopes would certainly see it, I would say ...

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected to miss the planet. But there’s a chance it will smash into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in ...

A chilling visualisation had shown what might happen if the asteroid hit Earth in 2032, as scientists feared. If the asteroid were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 ...