A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Another city-killer asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth completely undetected, a space agency chief had warned. Luca ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

A massive 540-foot asteroid 2014 TN17, which is twice the size of the Taj Mahal, is heading in the direction of Earth at ...

YR4 has given researchers their first chance to test an international protocol for responding to such hazards, put in place after the Chelyabinsk meteor hit Earth in 2013 without any warning.

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

He's talking about the Chelyabinsk meteor, an asteroid which scorched through Earth's atmosphere in 2013 and smashed through the icy plains of southern Russia. Luca said: “It didn’t hit ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...