Did you know that right now, as you read this, there is an asteroid flying toward Earth that has a small chance of hitting us? It’s very, very true. The asteroid is called 2024 YR4, and it’s the ...

The experiment simulated the pressure of an asteroid strike and ejection from Mars by sandwiching the microbe between metal plates and then firing a projectile at it from a gas gun. The projectile hit ...

After the recent Ohio meteor boom sent shockwaves (and the internet) into full panic mode, it’s only natural to lean into the chaos and queue up some end-of-the-world cinema. The asteroid-apocalypse ...