This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

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

There's a lot more to the asteroid belt than meets the eye—and some of the things you may have thought you knew may be ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

Psyche! You could be a billionaire soon. An asteroid discovered by NASA has the potential to set every human for life with ...

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

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

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

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...