Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

NASA has identified a 120-ft wide asteroid, 2025 MV89, set to pass near Earth on July 4 at a safe distance. Travelling at a speed of 31,204 km/h, it poses no threat to our planet.

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...