NASA has alerted the public about asteroid 2003 AY2, a colossal 1,200-foot-wide rock expected to approach Earth on June 22, ...

Webb's final snapshot of asteroid 2024 YR4 fine-tuned its orbit—raising Moon impact odds slightly, but Earth is safe.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of shrapnel to impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other spacecraft, according ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...

Previous predictions had found that Bennu will pass within 75,000 to 330,000 miles of Earth in 2135, possibly taking the asteroid closer to Earth than the moon. Bennu has practically no chance of ...

New analyses have dramatically altered this outlook. The latest data suggests that the likelihood of the asteroid striking ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

follow us follow us A giant asteroid, roughly the size of a 20-story building, is on course to make a close pass by Earth early this Saturday morning. Known as 2018 LE4, the space rock is racing ...

Earlier this year, an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 became infamous when astronomers briefly calculated a historically high chance of it impacting Earth. In that case, there was no reason to panic ...

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