The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

A planetary alignment featuring seven planets will light up the evening sky on Friday, with Mercury joining Mars, Jupiter ... journey toward the moon. (NASA via AP) Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

Saturn is now the undisputed champion of the Solar System’s moon race, surpassing all other planets combined. But that hasn’t always been the case. Jupiter’s four largest moons—Io ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon. The European Space Agency's Hera mission was ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos ... asteroid belt ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A European spacecraft en route to study an asteroid collision captured rare images of Mars' moon Deimos. The HERA mission aims to assess the impact of NASA's ...