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Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...
A large asteroid once considered the greatest known risk to Earth may now be on track for a direct hit — not on our planet, ...
On July 28, 2025—an asteroid roughly 230 feet across (think the size of a large airplane) named 2025 OW will zip past Earth ...
Earth has been cleared of an impact with the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, but there are still risks to the planet ...
NASA tracks asteroid 2025 OL1, set to pass Earth on July 30, 2025 at a speed of 16,900 mph. Despite its proximity, scientists assure it poses no threat.
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.
The night sky never stays still. And sometimes, it brings a quiet reminder that we share this vast space with wandering rocks ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...
When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...