Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth.

A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed ...

Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

Its diameter is similar to the asteroid that caused the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908, where a meteorite explosion ...