Simulation shows off what would happen if a giant asteroid hits the ocean as scientists solve a 20 year old mystery ...

There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. At one point, Asteroid 2024 YR4 was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been predicting a 4.3 ...

After years of debate, researchers have determined that the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was formed by an asteroid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2022, NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, on ...