Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

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

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Astronomers say the odds of an asteroid hitting the moong have increased, and that may still impact Earth.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Earth impact risk dropped from 3% to near zero thanks to rapid global tracking and new size data. (CREDIT: La Derecha Diario) ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032.

From Tunguska to tomorrow: Asteroid Day educates northern Arizona on impact events CALLIOPE J LUEDEKER Sun Staff Reporter Jun 29, 2025 1 of 2 ...