As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 follows an elliptical orbit around the sun and crosses Earth's path, making it a near-Earth object (NEO). It takes almost four years to complete an orbit, and its last perihelion was ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon however, may not be in the clear.

An asteroid is coming very close to Earth today, NASA says. The US space agency has revealed this asteroid's speed, size, and closest Earth approach.

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THE NEO SURVEYOR WILL CONTINUOUSLY SCAN INTO SPACE USING SENSITIVE INFRARED DETECTORS LOOKING FOR THESE ASTEROIDS AND TRACKING THEIR MOVEMENTS. IN THESE IMAGES FROM NASA, YOU CAN SEE AN ASTEROID ...

The asteroid which has a length of around 130 to ... has become an important topic with projects like the upcoming NEO Surveyor spacecraft designed specifically to spot near-Earth objects (NEOs ...

An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.