Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

MetaBallStudios / SWNS This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Hera got as close ... A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism ...

It has approximately a 0.004% chance of hitting the planet in eight years, new calculations show ... chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

If the asteroid collided with the Moon, Earth would be largely unaffected. Operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, David Rankin, told the New Scientist ...

hitching a ride with Intuitive Machines’ third mission to the Moon. “This is a new frontier, and we got another shot at it with Vestri,” Gialich added. aerospace technology Asteroid mining ...

The new images add "another ... by discovering more about the moon's composition. Those infrared imagers are why the red planet appears blue in some of the photos. Next, HERA will turn its focus back ...