A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear bombs at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the moon in 2032.

With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists ...

No tricks, but skywatchers may be in for an October treat when a newly discovered comet passes through our skies. Comet ...

Scientists are taking precautions against Asteroid 2024 YR4, which might hit the Moon in 2032. Instead of the usual plan to ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

Observers mention Comet SWAN as a small, condensed coma with a faint tail. By mid-October, it will become easier to be visible from northern latitudes, climbing steadily higher in the southwest ...

A large asteroid strike on the Moon could have negative consequences for the artificial satellites we now depend on. That being the case, a NASA-led team has looked into the options for preventing ...

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 40 eyewitness reports describing the same event, most clustered around ...

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...