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 ...

Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day ...

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. NASA will ...

NASA has just issued a chilling update on asteroid 2024 YR4 — a massive, Statue of Liberty-sized rock that now has a growing chance of crashing into the Moon by 2032. Once seen as a low-risk object, ...

A 4.3 per cent of impact still counts as a 95.7 per cent chance that it will miss the Moon. So, with it having no chance of hitting Earth on that date, 2024 YR4 could simply slip through lunar orbit ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...

That’s why NASA is launching a spacecraft next year to conduct the first test of one promising strategy for stopping a killer asteroid: Hit it while it’s still far enough way to alter its course.

OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu in late 2018 as NASA’s first—and humankind’s third—attempt to sample the surface of an asteroid. The spacecraft, which snatched a dusty, pebbly sample in ...

By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

NASA warns of a 250-ft asteroid, 2015 XR1, hurtling past Earth today at a speed of 45,529 km/h. Despite its close proximity, it poses no immediate threat to our planet.

An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of ...