THE football-sized asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

However, an impact on the moon cannot be ruled out. Then in January of this year, the near approach of an asteroid perhaps ... when its shock wave shattered glass in buildings.

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact ... of meteorite impacts are known to alter minerals within rocks, sometimes transforming them into translucent glass.

Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth ... through windows in their homes were injured by the shattering glass." Despite the Chelyabinsk wakeup call, we "still cannot detect ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...