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

On December 27, 2024, astronomers detected a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, that briefly became the most closely watched space rock ...

That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...

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

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

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

European Space Agency says milestone highlights both Earth’s vulnerability and advances in planetary-defense science - ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

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

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...