Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

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As of January 29, 2025, the asteroid has an almost 99 percent chance of safely passing Earth on December 22, 2032, but a possible impact cannot yet be entirely ruled out. While we can’t say for ...

(AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not ... probably occurred much earlier and were much more widespread than we had thought before.” NASA’s Daniel Glavin said one of the biggest ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only ... “These processes probably occurred much earlier and were much more widespread than we had thought before.” NASA’s Daniel Glavin said ...