The curious minds at What If imagine the largest asteroid ever hitting Earth today, revealing impact devastation, shockwaves, ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

There's a 4.3% chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the lunar surface and creating a collision so spectacular it will be like fireworks in the sky.

For the last couple of years, NASA has been observing an asteroid that could be hurtling towards the moon in a matter of ...

While the idea sounds like science fiction, NASA's upcoming mission to the asteroid is bringing this cosmic dream closer to reality.

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently reported as having a blue color.

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

A University researcher found evidence that a new species evolved faster than previously thought after a mass extinction ...