China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

But there could be another asteroid like YR4 - or worse - lurking in our blind spot, an astronomer has warned. The problem is, we still don't have the tech to let us search the space between Earth ...

The roundtable exercise, held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, also included nearly 100 representatives in attendance from across U.S. government agencies and, for the ...

During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense ...

The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth ... As powerless as we may sometimes feel against natural disasters—especially ones as extreme as the universe hurling a space rock at Earth’s ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

When it comes to natural disasters, most are impossible to predict ... However, one of the few for which we can be truly ready is an asteroid strike. While nobody has found any large asteroids ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all ...

Unlike most natural disasters, asteroid collisions are preventable, if there are tools to keep track of space rocks and act in self-defense if needed. Building out Earth’s planetary defense tool ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...