Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

YR4 has reached the highest risk of impact yet, according to both NASA and the European Space Agency, with the agencies ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The risk assessment of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has increased from a chance of 1.2% impact over the last week ...

These rocks are known as "planet killers." How many potentially hazardous asteroids are there? As of February 2025, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has identified around 37,500 ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

Asteroids and meteorites can cause catastrophic damage ... The Peekskill meteorite of 1992 is another notable incident. A football-sized rock crashed through the trunk of a car in Peekskill ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...