YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe ...

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Senators introduce a resolution to designate June 30 as National Asteroid Day, emphasizing planetary defense and public ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...