China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to jeopardize ... after a sample of Bennu had been transported to Earth. NASA ...

NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...

Armageddon may be a fun popcorn blockbuster, but the Michael Bay movie is also filled with plenty of errors that NASA experts ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The huge asteroid is noted to be heading for the Moon, and the explosion could expel debris to impact Earth’s satellites and ...