Scientists Believe an Asteroid Might Crash Into the Moon in 2032, a Once-in-5,000-Year Event A recently discovered asteroid ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

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 ...

The biggest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is going under the hammer — and it’s got collectors buzzing from London to ...

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

The largest known piece of a Martian meteorite, NWA 16788, is expected to fetch over $4 million at a Sotheby’s auction on July 16, 2025.

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

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

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...