Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

“We compare the orbital elements of 2024 YR4 with the near-earth asteroid population model and find that its most likely sources are resonances between the inner and central main belt.

Asteroid 2014 TN17 will make its closest approach ... and affect global weather patterns. For comparison, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia flattened 2,000 square kilometres of forest.

Asteroid 2014 TN17 is travelling at 77,282 ... and change weather patterns for years. For comparison, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia destroyed 2,000 square kilometres of forest.

The decline in US life expectancy is well documented, perhaps to the point of being too well documented and very predictable.