There's also a chance that a non-rogue planet could hit Earth too. A planet's orbit could become unstable due to gravitational forces, or another collision may knock it out of its usual movement.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

Discovered in 2003, SIMP 0136 rotates so rapidly that a day on this rogue world lasts just around 2.4 Earth hours. There is a possibility that SIMP 0136 isn't a planet at all but is an object ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision ... relief that Earth shall be unaffected by this asteroid. Although the threat to our planet has receded ...

The meteorite not only left a scar more than 100 kilometers wide, but its collision with Earth may have scattered debris across the entire planet. And this was not an event without consequences: it ...

It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 times the mass of Jupiter, it could be a rogue planet speeding around ... "Imagine watching Earth from far away. If you were to look at each color separately ...

Scientists have estimated a one-in-2,700 chance of a Bennu collision with Earth in 2182. Aside from the immediate devastation, the researchers estimated that an impact by a Bennu-sized asteroid ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero, after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...