Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

An asteroid is headed straight toward Earth. Initially, scientists thought it would miss us, but they've made some serious ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 60-meter-wide space rock, has a 4% chance of impacting the Moon in December 2032, potentially creating a kilometer-wide crater and a visible flash from Earth. Scientists are ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

Space is an exceedingly random place. Everything in the known universe may be governed by some pretty hard laws of physics, but so are BBs in a jar when you shake them up and down. That doesn’t stop ...

The Ursids peak Sunday night into Monday morning and will be visible until Dec. 26 from the Northern Hemisphere. Skygazers ...

"We are excited to be able to confirm that the object is a true chondrite meteorite," said the chair of TCNJ's physics department. HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, New Jersey -- Experts at The College of New Jersey ...