All eyes will be on the sky today as a huge 280-foot asteroid is to zoom close to Earth at more than 20,000mph.Luckily for ...

Get ready for the most anticipated meteor shower of the year, coming to a night sky near you! The Perseids meteor show is known for a high rate of brightly colored meteor streaks and less frequent but ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving just that. Once flagged for a potential Earth impact, this 200-foot-wide ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

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In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

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YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.