NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers determine that the asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially thought to ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

That "city-killer" asteroid may no longer be projected to strike Earth in the near future, but scientists are still keeping ...

Here's how to see 4 astronomical shows this month, such as a pink full moon, the Lyrid meteor shower and the moon hanging out with Venus and Saturn.

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

With meteor showers and other celestial events lighting up the sky throughout April, astronomers predict an exciting month of ...

Two major meteor showers will appear across New Jersey skies in April and May — the Lyrids and the Eta Aquariids. According ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

The city-killer asteroid's Moon impact risk has almost more than doubled, according to new NASA reports. Here's what we know.

Get ready for April's full 'Pink Moon' to rise and when to watch the shooting stars across the sky during the Lyrid meteor shower.

NASA says the chances of an asteroid dubbed ‘2024 YR4’ hitting the lunar surface have doubled since February. The odds of an ...