An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1 percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

Though that number’s rising, experts say further research could bring it to zero Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent Last week, NASA reported that a newly identified asteroid has a more than 1 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for ...

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 ...

but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level ...