There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. At one point, ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

A mysterious structure hidden beneath the North Sea puzzled scientists for decades. Now new evidence reveals it formed after ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

Scientists have finally solved a years-long puzzle. New research reveals that a 160-metre wide asteroid smashed into the ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Although more information is needed, the ESA’s Planetary Defense team believes the object was a meteor measuring at least a few feet in diameter. And while astronomers stressed there isn’t much to ...

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...