Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.

Astronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history" ...

A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...

Asteroid impacts represent a formidable natural phenomenon with the capacity to alter Earth’s environment on both local and global scales. The collision of near‐Earth objects (NEOs) with our planet ...

Geologists in North Carolina’s Sandhills have uncovered direct evidence of a late Eocene meteorite impact and tsunami, linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Led by G. Robert Ganis, this ...

Scientists are tracking an intense solar event that could spark rare auroras and briefly affect space-based technology.

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...