The 2024 YR4 asteroid caused quite a stir when astronomers first reported it via the Minor Planet Center back in December 2024. At the time, the asteroid had a 1.3% chance of hitting Earth based ...

The space agency said in a statement: "As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s) Center for Near-Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first detected by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile and reported to the Minor Planet Center on December 27, 2024. Despite the ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

While astronomers eventually ruled out the asteroid as a threat to our planet, it was always the ... according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks objects like asteroids ...

The feisty planet is part of an exhibit at the REACH called “Celestial Bodies: Earth, Moon, Mars,” which is itself part of the center’s three-week-long festival called “EARTH to SPACE: Arts Breaking ...

She was booked at the Adair County Detention Center, where no bond has been set, according to jail records. The teacher allegedly asked for the minor to kill her husband, police said. Facebook ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our closest stellar neighbours. No, they’re not Earth 2.0. But they do ...