An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, roughly the size of a 15-story building, has a slim chance of striking the Moon in 2032, potentially ...

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon, it would create a crater more than half a mile in diameter (1 km), becoming the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to the study. Current ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

John Sandusky, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted signs of solid minerals. These are known as silicon monoxide, beginning to cool and ...

Pacific Science Center will close for more than a month after Labor Day to dismantle its animatronic dinosaurs. Here’s why.

Vesta is passing an 8th-magnitude field star, offering a great opportunity to see the space rock’s motion on the sky over just a few nights.

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...