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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

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

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

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

NASA has a number of telescope assets which have captured images of interstellar comet. They include: The Hubble, Webb, TESS, ...