Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032, and some scientists are considering whether they ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

A new study challenges the long-held idea that dinosaurs were already on the verge of extinction when a giant asteroid struck ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

A small asteroid just gave the Earth a close buzz. The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at 8:49 p.m. EDT ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...