YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, it’s easy to panic. And there’s a 1.3% chance of exactly this happening. A ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth.

By Wilson Andrews and Christine Zhang We’ve published a new interactive map of the 2024 election that shows results by precinct, the most detailed vote data available. The New York Times is also ...

An asteroid the width of Manhattan will be close enough to Earth tonight to be seen with binoculars. The good news is that the word "close" — like all things astronomical — is relative.

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is approaching Earth this week, offering a unique opportunity for astronomy enthusiasts. This rare and spectacular phenomenon will not occur again for several decades ...

While sales of electric vehicles haven't increased quite as sharply as some may have once expected, most EVs saw significant sales increases in 2024. More and more options continue to flood the ...