NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

preventing it from reaching Earth’s surface. The lack of sunlight would cause global temperatures to drop rapidly by as much as 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). And as global ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...

In recent years, several spacecraft failed in their attempts to land on the moon. But 2025 may offer crucial second chances.

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Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

The meteorite was identified as billions of years older than Earth itself. The cosmic element ... date back over 4.6 billion years, predating our solar system. This makes the Murchison meteorite ...

Increasing investments by government agencies for space sustainability including green propulsion Based on Platform, Small ...

India's recent successful launch of Chandrayaan-3 underscores its growing capabilities in space exploration. Although private ...

The chances of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032 have almost doubled after new telescope scans, an expert told Yahoo News. The European Space Agency (ESA) has ...