Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...

The Aurora Borealis, typically only seen in the farthest northern reaches in the coldest winter months, could be visible in ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...

(NewsNation) — Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in December of 2032, according to The European Space Agency. Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...