NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like: a flat, ...

YR4, once flagged as a potential Earth threat, is now being tracked for a possible Moon impact in 2032, with a 3.8% chance of ...

There have been speculations that if ever the asteroid were to strike the Earth, it would yield an explosion quite several orders of magnitude higher compared to nuclear bombs. The havoc that ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small asteroid named Donaldjohanson for any danger it poses to Earth ... which NASA compared to "two nested ice cream cones." ...