Asteroid 2024 YR4, a roughly 180 foot wide rock initially labeled a “city killer,” has focused attention on how quickly a ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

(NewsNation) — Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in December of 2032, according to The European Space Agency. Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites ...

In Professor K.T. Ramesh's First Year Seminar, Defending the Planet: How to Stop an Asteroid, four years have passed in only two months. By the end of the semester, it will be 2036 and a simulated ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has popped up on the news again, offering both peril and opportunities, A few months ago, NASA noted that 2024 YR4 had a 3.1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. Since the ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has popped up on the news again, offering both peril and opportunities, A few months ago, NASA noted that 2024 YR4 had a 3.1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. Since the ...