Jambon and his team discovered four iron pieces containing “heavenly metal,” as they called it, including two bracelets, an ankle ring and a pin. The pieces had varying levels of meteoritic iron, ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

Scientists have set the potential impact date for the 2024 YR4 asteroid as December 22, 2032. Where could it hit? Ultimately, ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5%, ...

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until recently, there was no evidence that such an incident had ever occurred.

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Although it's still early to say for sure, experts are paying close attention to its path due to the possibility that it ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

In December 1795, ploughman John Shipley was working in a field in the Yorkshire village of Wold Newton when he heard a ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of buildings, and almost 1,500 people were injured by broken ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...