An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of hitting the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently too distant to detect with ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

While on Titan, Dragonfly will utilize its rotorcraft design to fly around the methane-filled world and explore Titan’s ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

The asteroid is about the size of a 10-story building, according to researchers. “In the unlikely event that 2024 YR4 is on an impact trajectory, the impact would occur somewhere along a risk ...