New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much.
The ESA probe spotted the moon while en route to witness the aftermath of NASA's asteroid deflection test.
AstroForge's attempt to launch the first commercial deep space mission fell apart shortly after liftoff.
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April.
2024 YR4 turned heads when it became the most dangerously rated asteroid earlier this week.
2024 YR4's odds jumped to a 1-in-32 chance of impact, though that number will likely fall as the asteroid continues to be monitored.
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.
Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth in 2182, causing a global winter and drought.
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause on Earth.
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.
The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking Earth in just seven years.
The tiny space rock was likely flung off the Moon's surface after a massive impact not too long ago.
The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction.
The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar system's origins.
They look like asteroids, but act like comets.
A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.
The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
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