As more and more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched into Earth orbit, some researchers are beginning to calculate the chances that people on the surface could be struck by the ...

During the Hadean eon, Earth was a world of constant impacts, molten rock, and a toxic atmosphere. The surface was repeatedly ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Nuclear winter is a warning written in the language of climate models and atmospheric chemistry. It's a disaster we should ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone realized.

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

A DOOMED comet has been pictured breaking apart less than a year after it was first spotted The crumbling comet whizzed past ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Prediction markets claim to reveal the future, but when wars, elections, and disasters are used for gambling, the ...

A newly tracked asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, triggering bright flashes, lunar debris, and rare meteor storms on ...