YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...