A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Huge 10-storey asteroid hurtles towards the Moon and could spark 'massive consequences' NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

An asteroid the size of a 10-storey building could now make impact with the moon, which could potentially fry global communications and send the planet into digital meltdown.

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032.

International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case ...