Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of the Moon. While posing no immediate threat, its flyby underscores the ...

An asteroid that was once expected to hit Earth is now being closely monitored for a potential collision with the Moon. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, received much attention after NASA claimed it ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

For months, astronomers were concerned that a newly discovered asteroid ... Earth in 2032. But thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we now know Earth is in the clear. The ...

The cosmic dream state you're in could include mind-bending thoughts about an impending asteroid impact on Earth. That's messy ... with his latest being "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published ...

A unique Holy Week tradition is drawing thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New ...

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When Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, lifted off into space on April 19, 1975, it marked the beginning of a quiet, ...

NASA Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are advancing the propulsion system for the Asteroid Redirect ... space,” the area between Earth and the Moon, which is some 239,000 miles ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...