YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Could New York face an asteroid threat in our lifetime? Scientists explain potential impact scenarios, emergency preparedness ...

A woman carries her cat out of a damaged multistory apartment building following Russia's massive air attack in Odesa, ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

The interstellar object has been named 3I/Atlas by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center.

Richard Jakiel fell in love with outer space as a kid, and his enthusiasm never waned. Now 67, the Lithia Springs man, who has taught astronomy in Cobb County high schools and at universities, plans ...