Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of shrapnel to impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other spacecraft, according ...

Israel's air defense intercepted missiles fired from Iran over Tel Aviv on Thursday morning as the two countries continued to ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

An asteroid crashing into Earth may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but experts warn it’s a real threat—and we may ...

A crater of this size forms only about once every 5,000 years. The description, taken from a recent arXiv preprint, is ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

one of the planet’s leading scientists in asteroid detection and planetary defense. “It’s smaller than the thing thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, but it is easily ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome. How exactly does it work?

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...