NASA has just issued a chilling update on asteroid 2024 YR4 — a massive, Statue of Liberty-sized rock that now has a growing ...

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.

New analyses have dramatically altered this outlook. The latest data suggests that the likelihood of the asteroid striking ...

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

If signed into law as written, the White House's proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA's budget would have some dire ...

YR4, once the highest impact risk ever recorded, now poses no threat to Earth but has a slightly increased chance of striking ...

"The President's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for NASA reflects the Trump-Vance Administration's commitment to ...

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 ...

Tracking asteroid 2025 JR involves many parts of the world working together. NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies oversees the process by gathering information from telescopes and radar all ...

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

In January 2025 NASA made an important announcement. An asteroid had just been detected by a telescope in Chile, passing by at just twice as far from Earth as the moon. And based on available ...