Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of ...

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This ...

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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

Picture this: a 'city killer' asteroid is hurtling through space, and its trajectory has it on a collision course. Thankfully ...

New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4 and a way to stop that.

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

What if Uranus and Earth were on a collision course? This video explores the science behind planetary collisions and shows ...

New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...