YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Miss USA 2024 Alma Cooper revealed that she wouldn’t attend the iconic pageant or crown her successor in Nevada on Friday night — just hours before the event started. Cooper made the “extremely ...

Millions of asteroids are currently zipping through our solar system. These rocky remnants of the early solar system receive extra attention when their itinerary brings them too close to Earth—which, ...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said Friday the fraud was motivated by financial gain, not an attempt to influence election results. FILE - Voting booths are set up at a polling place in ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...