A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Damage reports have come from the Hunsrück region, the Eifel mountains, and Koblenz, among others.

The pair, millions of miles away, continues to pose no danger to Earth, and scientists say it will remain safely distant for at least the next century. But the experiment has already delivered ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.

NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...