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

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

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

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

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

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 ...

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary ...

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

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, where a tail became more visible. The 3.5-mile solar object is traveling at ...