A gripping breakdown of asteroid 2024 YR4, rising lunar impact odds, and NASA's bold, controversial nuclear proposal to save ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

Scientists have issued a chilling warning regarding the city-killier asteroid, 2024 YR4, currently racing toward the moon, ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations ...

When you think of moons orbiting around celestial bodies, the first that naturally springs to mind is Earth's own moon. Certainly, that moon is ours – it is firmly locked within orbit around our ...

An asteroid with the second-fastest unique orbit in the solar system—one that sees it traveling a complete run around our star in just 128 days—has been found hiding in the sun’s glare. Known as 2025 ...

The photo shows Olympios kneeling on the back of a sleek boat, posing against the dramatic desert cliffs of Lake Powell. Wearing a tiny hot-pink string bikini, the Florida native showed off her toned ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...