YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

The origin of our sun, and all the planets, comets and asteroids that orbit it, can be traced back to their birthplace inside a massive cloud of cold gas and dust, not unlike the billowing molecular ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, speaks at a joint press conference with Dick Schoof, Acting Prime Minister of the Netherlands, at the Chancellery, in Berlin, Tuesday, ...

Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the asteroid, the spacecraft will attempt to collect physical samples, then drop ...

A California high school student just uncovered something no one expected—1.5 million hidden space objects. Using nothing but ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Scientists discover a fungus that binds to gold, promising more sustainable prospecting and mining, even in future space ...

Sceye (pronounced “sky”), the helium-filled aircraft is designed to gather information on methane leaks that satellites miss.

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...