NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

Learn about the increased impact probability of 2024 YR4, an asteroid that has a small chance to hit the Moon in 2032.

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...

How many people do you think have ever been hit by a meteorite? The running count is...one. And here's where it happened.

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

Scientists who want to study the Moon can’t just go there… but the Arizona desert has the next best thing: a crater stamped ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched May 29 to collect asteroid samples and study a distant comet, marking a major step in the nation’s ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at ...

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 ...