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

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

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

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in modern history. It is known as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning its orbit presents a danger to Earth, according to NASA. It is between 130 and ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...

“Don’t Look Up” (2021), “Moonfall” (2022), “Armageddon ... Rarely does a large asteroid ever hit our Earth. Thomas O’Grady has been an observational astronomy instructor ...

Smaller events, like the 2018 Bering Sea asteroid (173 kilotons) and the 2021 Kamchatka blast (10 kilotons), caused ... As per the latest update, NASA ruled out any risk of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth.

An asteroid 10 metres and above can be statistically expected to arrive every 10 years or so, with enough power to break windows and flatten small areas of forests, while those over 100 metres wide ...

On Feb. 18, NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2023 was 3.1 percent, the highest ever recorded for an object of this size.This ...