A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

The moon is approximately 238,855 miles from Earth. On Monday, May 18, newly-discovered Asteroid 2026 JH2 is going to zoom ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially ...

NASA is inviting amateur astronomers to join its Impact Flash project, which records meteoroid strikes on the moon’s dark side to aid future lunar base planning and study moonquakes. The appeal ...

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now completely ruled out any impact risk from asteroid 2024 YR4, both for Earth and for the Moon. In late 2024, a 60-metre wide asteroid was ...

Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths ...