There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular" meteor ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

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

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

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

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

Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It ...

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

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

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