Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

University of Arizona planetary scientist Amy Mainzer, an expert on near-Earth asteroids ... hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our ...

The latest probability of impact for asteroid 2024 YR4, as of June 3, 2025, at 4.3 per cent of striking the Moon on December ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

Every year, dozens of asteroids that are ... within three million miles of Earth. “We don’t want to get hit by something that big,” Johnson says. “Our most important task is finding ...

NASA is preparing for a potential asteroid impact, and a recent study has revealed some startling information about what’s ...

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

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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 ...

A steroids are rock-like objects that orbit the Sun, and meteors are pieces of asteroids (or comets) that enter the Earth's ...

Last month, in association with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we held the 2025 Sloan Film Summit, three days where we brought together the worlds of ...