In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

NASA has identified asteroid 2024 YR4, a 15-story building-sized space rock, which may hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.

What happened after Michael J. Fox finally met Eric Stoltz 40 years after replacing the actor in 'Back to the Future' ...

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 ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...

Yes, absolutely! When asteroids or comets hit rocky bodies such as the moon or Mars, they form impact craters that displace a large volume of material from the surface. Some of this material can be ...

Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a massive asteroid strike that created a conspicuous crater in southern China’s Guangdong province approximately 10,000 years ago, during a ...