The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact in 2032 has prompted renewed consideration of nuclear disruption as a planetary ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a celestial body roughly the size of a small building, has captured global attention due to its potential ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PN7 is moving close to Earth, sparking false claims about a second moon — here’s what scientists actually say.

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

The discovery of quasi-moon PN7 has caused a stir on social media. A University of Oregon astronomy professor explains. what ...

This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...

2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...