Earth may be safe from an impact by the asteroid 2024 YR4, but it still has a chance of striking the moon. This lunar impact could pose a risk to space tech and astronauts.

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

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

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

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

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

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

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