Imagine a world where a trip to Mars isn't a sci-fi fantasy spanning years, but a manageable journey lasting mere months.

NASA has upped the odds of a 200ft “city killer” asteroid smashing into the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was once feared ...

The asteroid was faint, requiring the use of large ... team “took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band (a specific range of wavelengths that correspond to visible red light or slightly ...

The Mighty Red follows characters Crystal and Kismet ... when I suddenly remember the terrifying possibility that a small asteroid could someday strike Earth and do unfathomable damage.

But astronomers put the brakes on the exciting discovery 17 hours later — after learning they’d mistaken a cherry-red sports car for an asteroid. The Tesla Roadster had been blasted into the ...

Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth objects.… Discovery of the suspected asteroid was announced in the ...

"We took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band and tracked the motion of the asteroid to obtain these images," Bolin explained. "The observations were difficult for three reasons.

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale ...

to 10 (red for certain collisions). A 3.1% chance of hitting Earth temporarily placed 024 YR 4 in the scale’s intermediate yellow zone. The flurry of news coverage about the asteroid has brought ...

Such an object may have had a mass comparable to that of Vesta, the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And when it plunged toward the Red Planet, it would ...