Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...

NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the Apophis asteroid. New data has since lowered the impact risk to 1.5% ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

So what gives? Astronomers were reportedly waiting for the skies to become darker to better study and understand the asteroid's trajectory as there was limited visibility around the full moon ...

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The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in the near future has leapt from having a near-zero chance of occurring to having roughly a 3 percent chance. While that may not seem like a ...

A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that ...

Nasa is monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth by 2032. Measuring between 130 and 300 feet wide, the asteroid could impact a major city, endangering millions.

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its ...

2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid on NASA’s automated Sentry list of potentially hazardous asteroids to the seventh highest position. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial ...