This coming week is going to offer some beautiful sights in the night sky. On Monday evening, a waning gibbous moon rises ...

A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand why this encounter is more routine than remarkable.

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. It now poses a threat to the moon, rather than Earth.

Its size earned the asteroid the nickname “city killer” since it could cause severe damage to a city or region if it struck Earth. 2024 YR4 is the temporary name given to the rock.

Nick Strobel has been a professor at BC for 27 years and writes the semimonthly astronomy column for The Californian.

NASA is monitoring an airplane-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth on July 28 at a zippy 46,908 miles per hour. The space rock—known as 2025 OW—is estimated to be about 210 ...

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and ...

NASA confirmed that it is one of five asteroids passing close to the planet over the coming week, but it is the largest of the group. A smaller asteroid will pass by on July 26, although 2025 OW ...