In 2032, a rare astronomical event may unfold, as asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon, resulting in a once-in-5,000 ...

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos to test planetary defense. But weeks later, its orbit kept ...

Astronomers believe a planetary body collided with Pluto early in its history to create a gigantic heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet. CNN values your feedback 1.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0 ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at ...

The afterglow resulting from the planetary collision, as described in the study, took approximately 2.5 years to disrupt the typical starlight emitted by ASASSN-21qj.

Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.