Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought. New research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Today is the last day to ride DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The attraction opened on April 22, 1998, as Countdown to Extinction - one of the original attractions when Animal Kingdom first ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

After the roughly 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Iron Man may claim the role of Earth's greatest protector, but he still can't compete with Marvel's first superhero, born 65 ...