NASA warns asteroid YR4 has a 1 in 32 chance of impact by 2032. At 177 feet wide, it could flatten a city with an 8-megaton blast. JWST will refine its trajectory soon.

NASA boffins have warned that Earth has no protection against the possibility of being struck by "city killer" asteroids that are hurtling through space.

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...

Scientists confirm meteorites contain all five DNA bases, indicating life's building blocks may have formed in space. Discover what this means for the origins of life.

NASA planetary defense experts report that mid-size near-Earth asteroids could cause regional damage, with detection and deflection remaining limited, according to New York Post and AAAS reports.

A planetary defense expert working for NASA warned that humanity has no defense against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that could wipe out a city.

(Web Desk) - Earth cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

The record-breaking asteroid, about the length of eight football fields, made one complete rotation in 1.88 minutes. Determining this asteroid’s rotating speed allowed the astronomers to determine its ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so ...