New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

YR₄ is no longer a threat to Earth, but the moon is not yet safe. Even observations from space have not changed this.

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest approach in over 100 years. This massive space rock, measuring an estimated ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

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