NASA announced the reduced impact risk on its X feed at around 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Wednesday (Feb. 19). The updated ...
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% ...
Astronomers are closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) that has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. While the probability remains low, scientists stress ...
NASA and other space agencies are attempting to come up with a way to destroy a massive asteroid unlikely to strike Earth.
President Trump launched the Artemis program to return U.S. astronauts to the moon for the first time since Apollo. Now the ...
A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the ...
NASA is on high alert for a “city-killer” asteroid that’s headed toward Earth — cuz they don’t wanna miss a thing.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...