ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly 2,000 feet landing in the heart of St. Louis could cause a crater nearly 4 miles wide and an earthquake felt as far as 116 miles away, according to an ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

The irregular shapes and orbits of Mars’s two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, have long been a subject of scientific ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any other. Astronomers predict that the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu has a one ...

A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below, a powerful pulse ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shocks scientists with thruster-like jets and a vivid blue glow, fuelling debate over its ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...

The odds will change as the asteroid approaches Earth Scientists constantly updating predictions with new data Even if it hits Earth, the asteroid would not end civilization The odds will change as ...

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded telescope in ...

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet. The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid ...