The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means the space rock has a nearly 99% chance ...

A recently spotted space rock has suddenly climbed atop astronomers’ threat lists. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way ... the measure could be taken against a space rock the size of a football pitch which is being ...

It appears to be composed of rock broken off from the moon's surface and ejected into space after a large impact. "We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the ...

NASA's asteroid samples unveil ancient water world remnants, hinting at extraterrestrial origins of life on Earth.

A telescope in Chile, part of a NASA-funded program to search for near-Earth objects, spied the asteroid two days after the rock, on Christmas, made its closest approach to Earth. It was roughly ...