A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

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“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet ... it’s not an asteroid when you get there,” he said. And it is a problem that is set to worsen as more nations and companies venture to the Moon and beyond.

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Although it might sound scary that it is so close to the Earth, there is no current danger to our planet ... the asteroid is predicted to be close to Earth at about 3.92 million miles, about 16 times ...