A midday flash of light across the Southeast was likely a meteor, with debris potentially damaging a home in McDonough, ...

Scientists have found 20 large asteroids near Venus with erratic orbits that could one day collide with Earth, posing a potential risk to cities. But no immediate danger detected ...

The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. ... Jun 20, 2025. Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos. Jun 19, 2025.

Astronomers have also constructed a 3D model of asteroid 2024 YR4 using observations conducted by the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, ... China’s official news agency Xinhua confirmed the launch of Tianwen-2, calling it a “complete success”. ... Eastern ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which once registered a possibility of hitting Earth, now has a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. The latest observations utilized NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

A team from Stanford’s School of Engineering and Sweden’s Linköping University has created a cylindrical drone called FireFly ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm because of the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The space rock ...