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

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

HAWAII, Hawaii (KHON2) — Big Island detectives have arrested and charged Kurtistown resident Spencer Kamuela Young Gun Chun, 40, on suspicion of intentionally hitting a pedestrian with his ...

But now, the agency's 'Sentry' Earth Impact Monitoring system reports a one-in-77 chance (1.3 percent) of a direct hit. Astronomers have also calculated a predicted impact zone that stretches from ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means the space rock has a nearly 99% chance ...

"We're in the largest wildfire ever to hit Southern California. We need all the planes that we can have at the time. And now we have one down for five days," acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally ...

In fact, Venus will hit its brightest peak of the ... It can be seen all night. Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will appear between Jupiter and Neptune in February. It also has a magnitude of ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

A speeding motorcycle fell and caught fire after hitting two pedestrians crossing Taft Avenue in Manila. According to Jamie Santos' report on "24 Oras," one of the pedestrians was killed while the ...