NASA says an asteroid heading towards Earth has a greater chance of impact than first thought. The United States-based space ...

NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, which has the highest impact probability on record, with a 1 in 25,000 chance ...

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A “city killer” asteroid the size of the Empire State ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze simulated asteroid impact scenarios to explain the global consequences of a ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has less than a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Its impact probability will continue to be refined as more data is collected. NASA said that the possibility of the ...

Don’t look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.