Geologists visited the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii to collect lava samples. Officials from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory landed on the floor of ...

NASA predicts increased chances of Asteroid 2024 YR4 collision in 2032! Which New York town will bear the brunt ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

NASA Insight mission's seismometer data of a meteor slamming into Mars has been converted into sound. The meteor broke into multiple pieces during its entry into Mars atmosphere and created at least ...

The odds of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth early in about eight years time has gone up. Here's why astronomers are ...

The odds of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth early in about eight years time has gone up. Here’s why astronomers are ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...