NASA’s Lucy mission took the highest resolution image yet of this uniquely shaped asteroid.

Home > Computing A Revolutionary, Low-Cost Asteroid Mission Is Now in Danger From NASA Cutbacks NASA may miss an asteroid flyby that happens once every 7,500 years.

International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence is the unique occasion of the close approach of 99942 Apophis in 2029 for a worldwide campaign to raise awareness regarding asteroids ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

June 2025 — NASA refined asteroid 2024 YR4's path, raising chances of a lunar impact in 2032. The asteroid no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, experts confirmed after new observations ...

What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) increasing the odds of a ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

Odds rose again after Webb's May observations to 4.3%. NASA assured the public, however, that the moon's orbit around the Earth would not be altered by a collision with an asteroid the size of YR4.

NASA Observations Suggest Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Has 1-In-23 Chance To Hit The Moon In 2032 If the impact happens it should be visible from Earth, and leave the Moon with a brand new crater.