See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...

Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, where a tail became more visible. The 3.5-mile solar object is traveling at ...

A Harju County man was amazed to find his home security camera had captured an apparent meteor earlier this week, Maaleht ...

A spectacular lunar explosion, captured by amateur astronomer Daichi Fujii, illuminated the Moon's night side on October 30 and November 1, 2025. Thes ...