NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

She joined PEOPLE in 2021, but has eight years of experience ... Given the moon's partial interference, the best time to watch the celestial spectacle is on Dec. 14 before dawn (anytime after ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The most devastating event in Earth’s history, as far as life is concerned, was the ...

The unmanned DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission began in November 2021. During that period, NASA launched a probe into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The probe collided with the ...

NASA describes the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," but it poses no threat to Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined PEOPLE in 2021 ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

According to NASA’s Asteroid Watch, 2015 DR215 also passed us by in March of 2021. Seeing close approach asteroids pass us by safely is great and all, but what happens when the events of Don’t ...

The encounter with Donaldjohanson won't be Lucy's first visit to an asteroid. Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023.

NASA Asteroid Watch Twitter account said that the asteroid "will safely fly by Earth" at a distance of five times further away than the Moon.

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...