The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

We're now learning from asteroid detectives and planetary defenders who are working to keep us here on Earth safe from being impacted by possible space debris.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific ... a direct impact would release an estimated 400 million tons of dust, aerosols, and debris into the atmosphere. This would block sunlight ...

An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...

And then the trajectories of that debris you then have to track.” The 1998 science-fiction movie Armageddon, about a giant asteroid headed to Earth, imagined sending a crew of oil drillers to ...