This week’s hype around a “city-killing” asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact ...
NASA awarded a contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency's near-Earth object surveyor mission. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday said the ...
Well he should, because those few brief seconds — in July of 1956 — gave young David Levy a star to wish upon for the rest of ...
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...
China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...
Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.
YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for ...
It's not great news, but don't panic: Astronomers spotted an asteroid that has a roughly 3.1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Space agencies are monitoring the newly discovered asteroid ...
We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.