The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space Telescope is set to fix its ...

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid ... than brightness — given off by the asteroid. “In general, the brighter the asteroid, the larger ...

The space rock could, in fact, be significantly larger than it seems. "In general, the brighter the asteroid, the larger it is, but this relationship strongly depends on how reflective the ...

The general rule is that the brighter an asteroid is, the larger it is ... we're looking at what they would call a city killer, where if it was to land on a major city - and there are a few ...

But the world's space agencies have now made a rare emergency decision as the chances of Earth being hit by a 'city-killer ... from its surface. In general, the larger an asteroid, the brighter ...

An Armageddon-style plan might actually save Earth from large asteroids (Picture: iStockphoto) NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city ... In general, the larger an asteroid ...

An artist’s impression of a “city-killing” asteroid ... heat — rather than brightness — given off by the asteroid. “In general, the brighter the asteroid, the larger it is, but ...