YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

Before humans reach Mars, NASA wants to test its long-duration spaceflight capabilities by sending a crewed mission to a near-Earth asteroid. Using SpaceX’s Starship and Falcon Heavy, three astronauts ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

But Not Too Close NASA has confirmed the approach of asteroid 2019 NW5. The space rock is expected to fly past Earth on 9 ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...