If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

A giant asteroid, roughly the size of a football field, was spotted hurtling through space — and for a moment, it looked like ...

Lucy will be the first spacecraft to travel to 's Trojan asteroids, which orbit the sun in two clumps, one ahead of and one behind the giant planet at gravitational stable "parking spots" called ...

Depending on how forceful the impact is, bits of the Moon could be ejected into space. Some of those fragments might get ...

China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos) : NASA's asteroid explorer Lucy spotted disappearing moon during the lunar eclipse ...

PARIS — On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the ...

NASA has discovered that an asteroid named Dinky is orbited by a tiny moon, forming a binary asteroid pair. In other words, it’s an even dinkier Dinky.

Scientists have named Earth’s second moon Asteroid 2024 PT5. Measuring about 10 meters (32 feet) long, it’s quite small compared to Earth’s regular moon, which is 1,737 kilometers (5,681,819 ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new ...