A “city-killer” asteroid previously thought to be on a collision course with the Earth could smash into the Moon instead, new ...

YR4 was classified in February at Level 3 on the Torino Scale prompting the UN to activate the Planetary Security Protocol ...

Caption Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the collision and will later ...

Had countless science fiction stories of asteroids discovered on a collision course with Earth ... quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an ...

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 European Space ...

Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...

Bukele agrees with Trump and takes USA's most dangerous prisoners to hellish prison in El Salvador NASA's Planetary Defense ... Even so, the risk of collision is low, but its impact could cause ...

Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images The recent and much-ballyhooed "planetary parade" was an interesting celestial event that likely spurred even infrequent skywatchers to seek out the ...