Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...