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.

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, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

The massive house keeps things restrained with a simple, rectilinear façade and a broad front lawn with sculpted plantings on either side of the oversized front door. The layout unfolds quickly, with ...

As the Baby Boom generation ages into retirement, advances in longevity, the rise of aging in place, and lingering behavioral shifts from the pandemic are reshaping what daily life looks like for ...