"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues. The ...

In his book “Les Prophéties”, which Nostradamus wrote in 1555, there are some cryptic verses, which followers are now ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

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An asteroid recently made the second closest pass to Earth ever observed on October 1st. And astronomers only found it after it had already completed its closest approach. That offers another lesson ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...