The chance that a city-killer asteroid will impact Earth in 2032 is steadily rising. Here's what you need to know.

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...

We might already be too late to knock ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 out of the way with a tested method, a scientist has ...

NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city-killing’ asteroid after the odds of it smashing into Earth ...

Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, who starred in hit 2001 series Meteor Garden, has died from pneumonia at the age of 48. Her sister, Dee Hsu, confirmed her death to local Taiwanese media through a ...

Read on to learn more about them. Venus, the Morning Star: Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system despite not being the closest to the sun, is so primarily due to its thick, carbon dioxide ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...