Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

A space rock roughly the height of a 15‑story building is on a trajectory that could intersect with the Moon in the early 2030s, and astronomers are watching it with unusual intensity. The object, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has shifted from a near term scare to a slow burning celestial drama. Instead of slamming into our planet, ...

Oregon is the No. 3 location in the U.S. “to catch a real asteroid sighting without needing a telescope or a degree in astrophysics.” So says a new study from The Action Network, released just in time ...

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A little less than four years from now, a killer asteroid will narrowly fly past planet Earth. This will be a celestial event visible around the world—for a few weeks, Apophis will shine among the ...

If a giant asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032 it could send lunar debris hurtling towards Earth, researchers have said, posing a risk to satellites but also creating a rare and spectacularly vivid ...

An international team of researchers studying dust samples retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 space probe, has found that some of its dust grains are older than the solar system. In their paper published in ...