If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered. A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

NASA’s DART mission successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit, but scientists now say the impact also shifted the path of the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth and adversely impacting it in 2032. A current report by the European Space Agency indicates that the asteroid has shifted in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working out ways to prevent a potential impact. Reading time 3 minutes Asteroid 2024 ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid ...

Asteroid systems, particularly binary configurations, represent dynamic natural laboratories for studying impact processes and collisional outcomes in our Solar System. Recent advances have shed light ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...