The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

Space.com is reporting the asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, is currently 27 million miles away. That puts the asteroid on track ...

YR4 were to strike, the consequences could be severe. ESA estimates that an asteroid of this size collides with Earth every ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, previously told Newsweek. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about asteroid?

NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

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Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...