NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

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

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we would not only witness the event, but we could also see the aftermath for decades to ...

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

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

The curious minds at What If explain why you should never try nuking an asteroid in space, revealing orbital risks, fragmentation, and unintended consequences.

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an ...