NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

It can also determine how a force called the Yarkovsky effect can gradually change an asteroid’s motion, changing its long-term orbit. NASA's Deep Space Network radio telescopes can ping ...

AstroForge will be the first private-sector company to actually send a spacecraft in close proximity to an asteroid, venturing into deep space. There are plenty of upsides to the pursuit of ...

The space agency said there is currently a 1.7 percent chance the asteroid could “impact” the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will continue to examine the asteroid ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations.

even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep breath ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so ... When an object in space moves away from us, the wavelength of the light or radiation it emits gets stretched ...

Every newly discovered asteroid is just a point of light until ... This is a much better probability than several days earlier, when the space rock was given a 3.1 per cent chance of striking ...

This month, a new kind of space telescope is setting out on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire ... Webb were built for looking into deep space and creating high ...