NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...

Though there's only a 4% chance that 2024 YR4 hits the moon, scientists have stated it would be a once-in-a-lifetime ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

Scientists discovered asteroid 2025 MN45 spins fastest for its size, rotating every 1.88 minutes Asteroid 2025 MN45 is about 2,329 feet wide, roughly the length of eight football fields The asteroid ...

One of the worst days in the history of life on Earth started like any other. Herds of hadrosaurs with huge head crests and duck bills roamed ancient New Mexico for plants to eat, making sure not to ...

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Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

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Mission could make China third nation to retrieve asteroid rocks Mission aims to explore asteroid, comet millions of miles away Asteroid landing, sampling tougher than China's lunar missions Plans ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a ...