The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.
The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.
For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...
NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...
In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...
A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...
Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...
A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...
The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon ...
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...