Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

It is known as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning its orbit presents ... Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton nuclear blast, larger than the Tsar Bomb, which was detonated in the Soviet Union ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ... that could potentially threaten Earth. "We can see orders of magnitude fainter than you would be able to with your naked eye ...

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...