It was first identified by NASA late last year and has been monitoring its chances of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032. On Tuesday, NASA rated the probability of a collision at 3.1%.

The collision between Earth and Theia caused a massive upheaval, mixing materials from both bodies. However, researchers now believe that parts of Theia's mantle sank deep into Earth's lower ...

This is how old Earth was 100 million years ago, a time when the planet was filled with dense jungles and deserts populated by Cretaceous dinosaurs. Most theories claim the collision ejected loads ...

NASA has upgraded the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 3.1 per cent, or about a 1-in-32 chance, the highest odds yet of collision. Astronomers discovered that the asteroid was ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 now stand at 1-in-32, or a 3.1 percent chance of collision, according to the latest data from NASA. On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of the ...