A space rock roughly the height of a 15‑story building is on a trajectory that could intersect with the Moon in the early 2030s, and astronomers are watching it with unusual intensity. The object, ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

A 60-meter-wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, could collide with the Moon in December 2032, offering scientists an unprecedented chance ...

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.

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Let’s imagine, just for a moment, that a group of extremely serious people in white coats announces that a killer asteroid is ...

An asteroid alert rarely starts with certainty. It begins with a faint point of light and a short run of observations, so ...

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...

Aerial view of Vera C. Rubin Observatory (L) and Gemini Sur Observatory (R) located in the Pachon hill, approximately 80 km ...

A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

A distinctive curved marking etched into the Moon’s surface comes into sharp relief this week as winter darkness, crisp air ...