This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246 ... The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed ...

3, 2025 — A solar wind event from ... source regions in the asteroid ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Three Tucson scientists are featured in "Planetary Defenders," a new NASA documentary that premieres Wednesday about the effort to track and possibly deflect asteroids endangering Earth.

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...