Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

A new study sheds light on some unlikely survivors of the asteroid impact that wiped out most dinosaurs 66 million years ago: ...

NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...