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

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...

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

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

The Earth could be sent into an "impact winter" if it is hit by the 500 metre wide Bennu asteroid where dust would be kicked ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

A chunk of ice believed to have fallen from a plane crashed through the roof of a home in the Seminole Woods section of Palm ...