This scenario imagining Earth being hit by a sizeable asteroid isn’t purely a morbid thought exercise. In five years time, one wider than the 330-metre Eiffel Tower will pass closer to us than ...

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

Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences, ...

The asteroid's size means it ... any object that appears to be greater than around 160 feet wide and has more than a 1 percent chance of hitting the Earth will trigger a set of precautionary ...

Five asteroids, including two bigger than the Eiffel Tower, are set to fly past ... the five asteroids that will fly past the Earth on January 6 is asteroid 2008 AF4. The space rock is almost ...

The asteroid will hurtle past the planet as a 'close approach ... larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London's Big Ben - that is currently heading towards ...

A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in ... only a handful of asteroids this large will pass within 15 million kilometers (9.3 million ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than ... threat to Earth, making it an ideal test subject. "I don't see why it wouldn't work" again, he said. The bigger question ...