A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

China's Tianwen-2 probe, which will soon unveil secrets of a near-Earth asteroid, has sent stunning pictures of the Earth and ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

A 2Bil-year-old Moon rock that fell in Africa bridges a billion-year gap in lunar samples and rewrites what we know about ...