The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...
A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...
Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...
Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn’t correspond to any of ...
A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth today (May 9). Scientists say the "potentially hazardous" 950ft-wide space rock - named 612356 (2002 JX8) - will pass around 2.6 million miles away from our ...
But don't expect to see what is being described as a second "mini-moon". Asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered on August 7 by the NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) will be drawn in ...
A NASA 'Eyes on Asteroid' visualization of asteroid 612356 (2002 JX8). (NASA via SWNS) By Dean Murray A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth today (May 9). Scientists say the "potentially ...