YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at over six kilometers per second to test Earth’s first planetary defense plan. Engineers designed the mission to precisely hit Dimorphos and measure ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 NJ, measuring about 65 feet wide, will make its closest approach on 7 July.

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MN88, measuring about 65 feet wide, will make its closest approach on 6 July.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

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A COLOSSAL asteroid on a collision course with the Moon could damage thousands of satellites and send shrapnel blasting ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...