An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

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

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

"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.

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

The Earth could be sent into an "impact winter" if it is hit by the 500 metre wide Bennu asteroid where dust would be kicked ...

Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.

An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, ...