With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test.

LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits Nearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf's most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially ...

City Rescue Mission in downtown Oklahoma City opened its doors on Thursday to welcome people in for a traditional ...

A lot of snow, rain and cold weather await travelers for the rest of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with winter storm ...