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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

The Moon was struck by two asteroids last week, and the activity was caught on camera by a Japanese astronomer. The impact has likely gouged craters several feet wide. There were massive bursts of ...

Update, Nov. 6: The Anchorage Police Department last month identified the pedestrian killed on Oct. 18 as 48-year-old David Galaktionoff. A driver accused of fatally striking a pedestrian in Midtown ...

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...

Science fiction is a particularly bountiful genre for the introduction of new words, in large part because authors come up with unique and otherworldly terms to describe their sci-fi worlds. Here are ...

A pedestrian was pronounced deceased following a collision on Ga. 11 near Shenandoah Drive in Winder. The Winder Police Department made a Facebook post Wednesday morning that they closed the area to ...

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a bit more complex than anyone thought.

Scientists have unveiled a 66-million-year-old, 5-mile-wide asteroid crater hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Stunning 3D seismic images reveal molten rock, mega-tsunamis, and the chaotic aftermath ...