It was given the highest ever risk level, but there's some good news.

TN17, a gigantic space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is speeding towards Earth at 77,282 km/h. It is rated as possibly ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11 million kilometers from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — until late 2026. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft swung ...

If this asteroid moving towards the Earth at a speed of 61,200 kilometers per hour touches ... 8 million tons of TNT energy which will cause 500 times more destruction than the atomic bombs ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 ... a diameter of roughly three-tenths of a mile (500 meters) - strikes Earth. Scientists have estimated ...