YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically ... km in diameter on the moon, with another 700,000 ...

Cars were washed out to sea after massive floods hit a Spanish island ... approval rating revealed in new poll The World’s Oldest Asteroid Crater Has Finally Been Identified – And It May ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify places on the moon's surface ... There's a 2% chance a big asteroid could hit Earth in 2032.

in the moon’s northern hemisphere. This is Ispace’s second lunar mission. The first ended in a crash in April 2023 because its navigating software misjudged the spacecraft’s altitude.

For example, Allensworth said, her team ran through how they would respond if a meteor hit one of Blue Ghost ... was formed when the moon was struck by an asteroid. Over time, the basin flooded ...

At Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida, students in the Jupiter Mathematics Club are hosting a Pi Day ...

a small asteroid thought to have broken away from a larger one. The OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in 2016, with the spacecraft returning to Earth in September 2023 with 4 ounces of dust and ...

When a mysterious meteorite fell in Algeria in 2023, scientists didn't know that it was a special ... body that exists in space right now in a different form, such as the Moon, Mars and other worlds.

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4.

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers says that instead of stressing about the near miss, we can be excited ...

While the asteroid won’t hit the Earth, it does have a small chance of crashing into the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. According to NASA, the current probability of the asteroid colliding with the moon ...