The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate ...

So while the threat means real albeit small, the natural question is what does this mean for us back on Earth, given ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

Chances of a collision have been repeatedly revised upwards but have now started to fall – but it may still hit the Moon ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

As of Jan. 31, 2024 YR4 is 30 million miles from Earth and moving farther away on its outbound path around ... continue its orbit around the Sun and will safely return to Earth’s neighborhood in 2028 ...