NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

NASA and other global space scientists keep a close eye on asteroids known as near-Earth objects (NEOs). These are comets or ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Across Gaza, it was estimated that 4,500 new amputees require prosthetics, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

THE odds of a “city killer” asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was ...

If it were to hit the earth, it would unleash a deadly blast over 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on ...

Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

Further observations by the James Webb Space Telescope successfully measured the asteroid’s thermal emission. According to ...