“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

And although the band of ancient craters is the only physical evidence such a ring ever existed, life on Earth likely ...

Would you like to explore the space in Rimworld Odyssey? You will need a grav engine first. Here you will learn a couple of ...

These rare asteroids form under extremely high temperature conditions inside the solar system’s inner region. Enstatite chondrites contain different minerals such as djerfisherite, a potassium ...

Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black ...

These are the asteroids that scare scientists. Are we prepared for them? Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential.

How "asteroid detectives" protect Earth from potential impacts Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space.

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner Solar System, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago.

There are billions upon billions of asteroids in the roughly 92 million-mile-thick asteroid belt, according to EarthSky.org. What size are the asteroids we know about?

A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with ...

The Age of Dinosaurs Ended With Not One but Two Asteroids, Scientists Now Say The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater.