This image imagines a prehistoric world reborn after a catastrophic asteroid strikes Earth once again. The realistic ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working out ways to prevent a potential impact. Reading time 3 minutes Asteroid 2024 ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

An artist's illustration depicts a typical asteroid in our solar system. - ESA The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears ...

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have eliminated any chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon in December 2032, removing a scenario that had raised concerns about ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...