An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the ...

A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its size ...

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks overnight on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The Geminids are active between Dec. 4 to Dec. 20 each year ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a hazard to Earth, according to the James Webb Space Telescope Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

The surfaces of Earth and other rocky bodies are littered with conspicuous craters caused by direct hits from asteroids or comets (SN: 7/23/15). But sometimes an incoming object disintegrates in ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — A European-led mission to the asteroid ...

(KGTV) — A post circulating on social media claims NASA is warning there's a 72% chance an asteroid the size of an airplane will hit Earth on July 12, 2038. The post has appeared numerous times on X ...

A small asteroid zoomed past Earth closer than most satellites last week — and astronomers didn't notice it until hours later. The surprise asteroid encounter occurred at 8:47 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, ...