Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...
At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...
"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.
New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.
Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...