NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially ...

larger asteroid breaking apart. In the time since, the team also learned, Donaldjohanson's orbit and spin have evolved significantly. "Data indicates that it could be quite elongated and a slow ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ... objects that are within the same sort of orbit as the Earth. And the reason we want ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...

For example, Asteroid 2024 MK made an unexpectedly close approach to Earth last year, just 13 days after its discovery. The encounter altered its orbit, bringing it closer to Earth than previously ...

The American space agency NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid, 2014 TN17, which is approaching our planet. The asteroid, measuring 165 meters in width—twice the size of the Taj ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

"The 'potentially hazardous' designation simply means over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a chance of impacting Earth. We do not assess these long ...