China has deployed a group of warships to the western Pacific Ocean after the United States positioned ship-killing missiles ...

Panic no more! Asteroid 2024 YR4 risk level drops back down for impacting Earth in 2032. Wolves top Lakers 116-104 in Game 3 ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

NASA and other global space scientists keep a close eye on asteroids known as near-Earth objects (NEOs). These are comets or ...

In 2022, NASA launched the DART mission, which crashed into a small asteroid called Dimorphos. The test was a success it changed the asteroid’s orbit by 33 minutes. It proved that asteroids can be ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

A research team led by Andy Rivkin from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory used discretionary time on the James Webb Space Telescope to examine YR4. It marked the smallest object yet ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...