A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This asteroid is about to slam into the Moon and crack it ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

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The moon is pummeled by asteroids nearly every day, creating new craters constantly that can range from a few feet to many miles across. The asteroid impacts, when they’re large enough, create flashes ...

When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.

NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new report ...