Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...
Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...
The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...
Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...
Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...
The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...
NASA was recently tracking a large asteroid, known as the "city killer," after finding a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...
Scientists emphasize that this case highlights the importance of continuous asteroid tracking. Advanced monitoring helps ...
For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.