Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

NASA is on high alert as asteroid 2025 OL1, travelling at nearly 17,000mph, prepares for a close, but safe, flyby of Earth on ...

Scientists are monitoring a recently discovered asteroid which could potentially hit the Moon - and calculating its likely ...

The asteroid has revised its trajectory and now on course to potentially collide with the moon in late 2032. | ITV National News ...

Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...

Earth has been cleared of an impact with the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, but there are still risks to the planet ...

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.

Japanese scientists recently discovered organic matter on a distant asteroid, reviving interest in the panspermia theory—the idea that life spreads through space via celestial objects. This theory ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...