A large asteroid is predicted to have a close encounter with Earth. NASA has issued a warning, here's what we know about the ...

The DART mission was fab, but might not be able to stop 2024 YR4,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Referring to NASA’s 2022 ...

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“Basically, the more observations we get, the more we can localize and confirm the asteroid’s trajectory, which is most likely to turn out to be a flyby, and not an impact,” the agency said on its ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Scientists are ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Astronomers are using the James Webb telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

Twenty-four years ago, a spacecraft with no landing mechanism touched down on a chunk of rock in space. Defying all odds, the Nasa spacecraft became the first in history to not just orbit a minor ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...