NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of hitting Earth. Since then models have been refined and while it no longer has a ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and ... What makes this result particularly interesting is how that lost mass splits up between different fates. About 20% escapes as ...

A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the moon in 2032.

The University of Arizona-led spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is planned to collect a sample of the surface of an asteroid on October 20. And if successful, it will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return ...

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it ...

The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.

An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, ...

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According to NASA, the data helped improve scientists' understanding of where the asteroid will be on Dec. 22, 2032, by nearly 20%. Since there is so much uncertainity about the path of the asteroid, ...

Good news: It's probably not going to hit Earth anymore. Bad news: It still could hit the moon — and some astronomers think NASA should blow it up. An asteroid that could be as big as the Statue of ...