Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

ESA’s Planetary Defence team allay fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth’s moon and disrupt satellites ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Fears of a “dangerous” asteroid striking our moon have been ruled out this week, despite earlier concerns that there was a ...

Scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to collide with the moon, will safely pass at a distance of over 20,000km.

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not collide with the moon, ending months of speculation about a potential impact in 2032. Fresh observations reveal the 100-metre-wide space rock ...

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday. Related Articles. King pen ...

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

The European Space Agency said it is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies of Europe on the weekend before reportedly punching a football-sized hole in the roof of a German home.

When people think of asteroids, they tend to picture rare, civilization-ending impacts like those depicted in movies such as "Armageddon." In reality ...

A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.