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

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.

These have included, in recent years, NASA, whose OSIRIS - RE x mission (2016-23) collected samples from the Bennu asteroid, which measures a third of a mile across and has been calculated to have ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a commercial aeroplane is expected to pass Earth on 28 July, according to NASA. The object, known as 2025 OW, is about 210 feet across and will fly by at a distance of ...

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 ...

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.

Now, astronomers say this one asteroid could redefine the range of risks the field addresses, expanding the purview of the work to include monitoring asteroids that might be headed for the moon as ...