NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

The Catawba Island Volunteer Fire Department says they responded to two separate calls for multiple ice fishermen who fell ...

Longtime Houstonians -- including people who were born here -- explain their abiding love for this mystifying city.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention ... from view to reassess whether any recommendations need to be made, according to the ESA. “If 2024 YR4 remained a threat at ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention ... from view to reassess whether any recommendations need to be made, according to the ESA. "If 2024 YR4 remained a threat at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

About 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid 15 miles (25 kilometers) across slammed into the far side of the moon at a speed of about 1 mile per second. As it impacted at what is now known as the ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...