“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective ...

A COLOSSAL asteroid on a collision course with the Moon could damage thousands of satellites and send shrapnel blasting ...

I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to jeopardize the spacecraft during extraction of the sample. But the science ...

A massive meteor crater in northern Arizona continues to attract visitors and spark curiosity about space and science, ...