The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

The James Webb Space Telescope got a direct look at 2024 YR4, the asteroid once feared to strike Earth, and has determined ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

A massive 540-foot asteroid, 2014 TN17, is heading towards Earth at an astonishing velocity of 77,282 km/h, space agency NASA has announced. The asteroid, which is approximately twice the size of Taj ...

NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26, 2025. Despite the pass being 5 million kilometers away, its designation as a potentially hazardous asteroid ...