Asteroid 2024 YR4, a roughly 180 foot wide rock initially labeled a “city killer,” has focused attention on how quickly a ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile could ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

Get ready for some news that’s out of this world. An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be on course to make contact with the moon—and such an impact wouldn’t come without consequence, according to an ...

A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact—which contributed to the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago—in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already delivered spectacular images. On them, researchers have found an asteroid that ...