If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered. A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The celestial body known as asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a collision course with the moon, with an expected impact date in 2032. As the clock ticks, scientists are considering a drastic measure to prevent ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

An asteroid the size of 12 and a half fully grown gorillas is set to pass the Earth on Wednesday, May 21, in a very close flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question was ...