The updated data narrowed asteroid 2024 YR4's predicted path by 20 percent, leading to the increased likelihood of a lunar collision. Despite the increased likelihood, NASA emphasizes that even if the ...

During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense capabilities.

The European Space Agency shared a similar risk assessment of its ... While the asteroid won't again be observable from Earth until June 2028, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able ...

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

NASA’s Risk Assessment NASA classifies any asteroid as potentially hazardous if it exceeds 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter and comes within 5 million miles (8 million km) of Earth's orbit.

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

On December 22, 2032, the Moon may face a significant event as asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered by the James Webb telescope, is ...

That’s why NASA is launching ... bomb near the asteroid to vaporize part of its surface and push it off course. A nuclear explosion on the asteroid surface itself would risk creating a shotgun ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.