Our cosmic home, the solar system, contains incredible planets and magnificent celestial objects, all held together with the ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

There's a new interstellar object moving through our solar system and it's called 3I/ATLAS, according to NASA.

An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December 22, 2032. That might sound small, but it’s 1 in 32 odds - worse than ...

Should YR4 strike the Moon, the collision could eject up to 100 million kilograms of lunar debris into space. A portion of this material might enter Earth’s orbit, posing risks to satellites and other ...

The ESA wrote in a blog post: "By March 2025, astronomers had ruled out an Earth impact in 2032. However, the final observations of the asteroid failed to rule out another intrigu ...

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

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...