"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.

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 with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

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

The massive space rock with the risk of hitting Earth's surface within the next seven years has kept scientists on their toes ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

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 ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

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 ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.