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

A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights. Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite the stir last year when astronomers calculated a 3% chance of ...

The weight of the asteroid may vary from 51 million kg to more than 711 million kg, and the energy required to move each of those weights precisely differs greatly.

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.

A GIANT asteroid that risks crashing into the Moon could be nuked before it makes impact. Scientists are looking into the ...

Researchers say we can use two 100-kiloton nuclear bombs to destroy the asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the Moon.

The unusual behaviour of the 'very common' asteroid has sparked worries over our preparedness for future impact.

A small asteroid, named 2023 CX1, entered Earth’s atmosphere on February 13, 2023, over northern France. It created a very ...

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 40 eyewitness reports describing the same event, most clustered around ...

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