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

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, and by mid-2025 tracking suggested about a 4% chance it could ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an ...

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

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

Partnership brings flight-proven AI-driven guidance and control to one of commercial space’s most ambitious deep-space missions ...

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...

NASA is heading for an oddly shaped space rock that could, in theory, turn every person on Earth into a billionaire ...

The process broke down the chemical compounds, forming new elements—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen—essential ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently reported as having a blue color.

Symphony Central Coast has planned a bumper series of concerts to mark its arrival at the Coast’s newest concert venue, ...