Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...
An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.
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The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
While the apparent increase in collision probability for December 2032 may seem concerning, experts stress that the risk ...
On Mercury, the hot days are also incredibly long. Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the sun can appear overhead for weeks at a time. A year on ...