In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that's hurtling towards the Earth at more than 33,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Designated “2025 XN4, ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

In 2021, a global survey of 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 found that 75 percent were fearful of the future. More than half believed that humanity is doomed to extinction. There’s ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers say shouldn’t exist. Hundreds of Geminid meteors blaze across the night ...

The organization said in a statement on Wednesday that the Minor Planet Center (MPC), in cooperation with the Pan-African ...