A bus-sized asteroid is set to hurtle past Earth today at a staggering speed of 35,000mph - ten times faster than a speeding ...

"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.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

BS4 is forecast to come within 511,000 miles of the Earth's surface – and has the capabilities of destroying Birmingham, or ...

NASA is tracking the path of an asteroid that is set to shoot past Earth going 35,000 ... to do catastrophic damage if it landed on a large city. Asteroid 2025 BS4 is just one of more than ...

What could be a 100-metre wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, has very slim chance of hitting the Earth early in about eight years time. Here’s why astronomers are paying attention.

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2024 YR4 with a 1.2% chance of colliding with Earth on 22 December 2032. The asteroid, ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” said Betts. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city ...