The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 3/11/25, astrophysicist Brian Koberlein explains the science behind the "city-killer" asteroid (which is no longer expected to hit earth).

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Estimates of the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 have gone down to near zero, but that doesn't mean Earth is safe.

Emporia State University's Peterson Planetarium is all about asteroids in March, with a focus on one asteroid in particular.

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we’re all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...