The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

Estimates of the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 have gone down to near zero, but that doesn't mean Earth is safe.

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

A massive 150-foot airplane-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth tomorrow, prompting NASA to issue a cautionary alert.