Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: a significant chance that a “city killer” rock could slam into the Moon ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary perspective on the asteroid strike that ended the Cretaceous period and killed ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for a ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...