If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon, it would create a crater more than half a mile in diameter (1 km), becoming the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to the study. Current ...

An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides with the Moon. The impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 into the lunar surface would ...

The latest observations of the asteroid in early June, before YR4 disappeared from view, have improved astronomers’ ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...

A giant asteroid, roughly the size of a football field, was spotted hurtling through space — and for a moment, it looked like ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth could have at least six minimoons that we never knew existed. A minimoon is a small ...

The moon is littered with craters similar to Daedalus, as observed by the Apollo 11 crew on the lunar far side, according to ...

Since 2020, Earth has been rotating unusually fast on its axis, leading scientists to consider whether we should correct for the shorter days.