Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science has reached out to Sotheby’s for confirmation of the sale price.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.