The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...

The asteroid 2022 RM4, photographed by astronomer Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy on October 31, 2022. The asteroid passed Earth the following day at a distance of around 1 ...

The skyscraper-size asteroid 2022 KY4 will make its closest recorded approach to Earth on Sunday, July 17, passing within about 3.8 million miles.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About ...

2022 GU6 is classified as an Apollo asteroid, with a diameter approximately between 60m and 150m. (On the larger side, that’s about as tall as the Fuller Building, a 40-story skyscraper in New ...

Image captured by Italy's LICIACube just minutes after NASA's DART mission intentionally collided with asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. NASA/ASA In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed ...

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, ... 2022. NASA/ESA/STScI ...

AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum. And if Odin’s camera can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RM4, is expected to pass by Earth on Nov. 1 – about 1.5 million miles away at its closest point. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid’s trajectory by crashing into it, ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...