Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Scientists spotted a new asteroid—turns out it was Musk’s Tesla Roadster. Who knew space junk could be this expensive… or ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

the Torino scale is a color-coded scale from 0 to 10 (white to red) indicating the severity of an asteroid threat. 2024 YR4 is a 3 on the Torino scale, meaning that the close encounter with the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...