Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

While these asteroids are approaching at very close distances, scientists have confirmed they pose no threat to our planet.

The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth in eight years. Still, there's up to a two per cent chance it will, ...

Guest blog by Luisa Doughty, Mission Manager and Sarah Cheesbrough, Misson Manager at the Satellite Applications Catapult.

An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of Astronomy Ireland told DublinLive that 2024 YR4 would be a “country killer ...