A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in 7 years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

Researchers are now examining surprising structural changes occurring within the Earth's core that may have slightly affected ...

When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO ... It could collect measurements day and night and see through clouds. The team's work led ...

The time of closest approach to Earth (when it could potentially impact) is the 22 December 2032. The asteroid has been ranked as ‘level 3’ on the Torino Impact Hazard scale, but NASA says this is ...

Credit: NASA / SpaceX One of the many advantages of ... it's actually some 87 million miles from Earth. Sunlight tends to wash out such objects as they sidle up to the star, but this one can ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...