Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around ...

Scattered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies the main asteroid belt — a vast region filled with rocky remnants left over from the birth of the solar system. These objects, known as asteroids ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the ...