No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation speed – it also appears to change in shape, with subtle variations appearing in the way ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...