Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has made his feelings clear on asteroid 2024 YR4, the “city killing” space rock ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

Nicole Nie, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences noted that meteorite impact vaporization is almost certainly the dormant process creating the ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The annual Perseid meteor shower has begun and you need to start thinking about planning a visit to a dark sky destination for ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. February will also see a meteor shower unfold. The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower, also known as the α-Centaurids, is active from Jan ...

Luckily for us, there are regular meteor showers throughout the year, giving us numerous opportunities to catch a glimpse of them lighting up skies across the United Kingdom. Explaining the ...

Micro-meteorite Bombardment: The Moon’s surface has been continuously bombarded by micro-meteorites and subjected to extreme temperature changes, which has caused rock fragments to break down ...