Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain his highly attuned to pattern, explain our readers ...

Scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not collide with the moon, ending months of speculation about a potential impact in 2032. Fresh observations reveal the 100-metre-wide space rock ...

Fears of a “dangerous” asteroid striking our moon have been ruled out this week, despite earlier concerns that there was a ...

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...