Affected swaths of ocean are roughly the same size as Africa, China, Europe and North America’s land areas combined.

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

2024 YR4 asteroid has chance to hit Earth: Scientists NASA first discovered “2024 YR4 ... As of April 2, 2025, the chance for 2024 YR4 to hit the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032, rose from 1.7% in late February ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

If the Moon ever collided with Earth, the results would be catastrophic, triggering global destruction, tidal chaos, and ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

“The way that the orbit improved made the position move away from the Earth, but it moved toward the Moon. So there's like almost a 4 percent chance it's going to hit the Moon. That means there ...

NASA has highlighted that even if the asteroid were to hit the Moon, no changes would be made to its orbit. With Earth in the clear, scientists continue to monitor 2024 YR4 using space-based tools ...

An asteroid that set off a global effort to determine if it would impact Earth in 2032 is no longer a threat to our planet. However, chances of a hit to the Moon are increasing. In March ...

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected to miss the planet. But there’s a chance it will smash into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in ...