The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

After the roughly 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

They figured this out by looking at the asteroid’s mass and the energy that would be released if it struck the moon’s surface, called kinetic energy. This impact would cause a magnitude five ...

Though there's only a 4% chance that 2024 YR4 hits the moon, scientists have stated it would be a once-in-a-lifetime ...

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

We look ahead to a future moment when asteroid Bennu will pass dangerously close to Earth and why even small odds demand serious preparation. By following NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, we explore how ...

Nine-year-old Ariana Church discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite older than Earth itself - while exploring a beach in Penarth, Wales with her family. The rare Ferrous Iron Aerolite, spotted ...

How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

A massive meteor struck near Manson, Iowa, 74 million years ago, creating the U.S.'s largest impact crater and reshaping the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...