YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, spawning upwards of 120 meteors per hour. These meteors come from the 2003 EH asteroid as the Earth drifts through its tail. When ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

NASA will use the Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space, to measure the asteroid’s orbit as accurately as possible, the agency announced on Monday.

The 1P/Halley, famously known as Halley's Comet, is responsible for the Eta Aquariids, and it's the biggest meteor shower to occur during spring with up to 50 meteors per hour. The only downside ...