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What would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon? Scientists have a theory - There’s a 4.3% chance it hits the moon in ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The curious minds at What If imagine the worst asteroids from history hitting Earth tomorrow, revealing catastrophic impacts and extinction-level events.

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

Is a “temporary second moon” really going to orbit the Earth? That’s the claim made in a number of viral social media posts ...

The collision of asteroid 2024 YR4 with the moon is projected to occur on December 22, 2032, with an energy release comparable to a medium-sized thermonuclear explosion. According to researchers, this ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope ...

New research suggests another connection, one between these two asteroids and a possible Venusian meteor shower. If this is ...