Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond. Nearly every country in the Middle East is sustaining ...

Had the asteroid hit the moon, it would have carved out a crater in an impact with the energy of a nuclear bomb.

The discovery indicates that around 6 million years ago, South America was struck by a large space rock. This was probably ...

The researchers believe the geraisites’ crater may lie in the São Francisco Craton, a region in the eastern part of South ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Giant impacts on Earth’s surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters ...