A paper from NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon should ...

The target for impact is a near-Earth asteroid that is minuscule in the vastness of space, with a diameter of only 50 to 100 meters, but the energy of the impact would be equivalent to the ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can do big damage.

NASA has upped the chances of a recently discovered asteroid — nicknamed “the city destroyer” or “the city killer” — colliding with Earth. The asteroid, officially known as “Asteroid 2024 YR4,” was ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - New reports on Asteroid 2024 YR4, originally discovered in December and determined to have a chance of colliding with the Earth, stated that it has a chance of hitting the Moon ...

June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...

A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA's radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, possibly making impact in 2032. But there’s no cause for alarm: There’s about a 2% chance of impact, and that number may go down. An asteroid is on a ...

On June 30, 1908, a catastrophic explosion rocked the skies over Eastern Siberia, releasing an energy equivalent to 10–15 megatons of TNT. Known as the Tunguska event, this mysterious occurrence ...