A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can absolutely solve.” ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

A recent study found that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually shedding mass over time. This region was previously predicted to form a planet during the Solar System's birth 4.6 ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our planet is even harder. This is ...

For the best part of 60 years, the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, otherwise known as Yusuf Islam, has been one of the most unique figures in music and popular culture. This week, the Rock & Roll Hall ...

October is a star-studded month with two meteor showers, winter constellations and a good chance to see a trio of green comets.

The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at 8:49 p.m. EDT (Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 0049 GMT), according to NASA data.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Now a group of researchers are debating how best to deal with the object, including an option to use a ...

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Discover the list of the top 9 largest impact craters on Earth, including the Vredefort Dome, Chicxulub crater, and other biggest meteor craters.

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit continued to alter over the following month ...