For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...
The Asteroid’s Path 2024 YR4 was first detected in December 2024 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, which is part of a global ...
In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...
Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
New findings indicate dinosaurs were flourishing just before the asteroid strike. Fossils from New Mexico show diverse and healthy dinosaur populations. This evidence supports the theory that the ...
The asteroid 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs hit at a 60-degree angle — ensuring maximum death and destruction.
Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...