Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

Could New York face an asteroid threat in our lifetime? Scientists explain potential impact scenarios, emergency preparedness ...

An asteroid discovered last year and briefly thought to be a threat to Earth has a one-in-23 chance of hitting the Moon, ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

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

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...