If the object doesn’t pose an immediate impact risk, and it’s a real asteroid, NASA’s Sentry ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with their sunward side ...

As such, it poses no real threat to humanity for years and years to come. 2011 AG5 as it floats through space. The asteroid is more elongated than any other asteroid NASA has observed. Image ...

This is the job of Hera's operations team, who will initiate the 'asteroid proximity operation' "That's going to be a real challenge — just imagine flying through an environment that's so dynamic," ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large enough to destroy an entire city — has a 0.28% chance of colliding with ...

After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth safe from “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4. On Tuesday, the space agency recently placed space rock’s impact ...

Japan’s space agency JAXA is still celebrating the success of its first attempt to collect a sample of the asteroid Ryugu using ... describes the image: [The photo] was captured roughly 1 ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip by Earth in seven years, according to NASA. The agency also shared that the new ...

But fear not: NASA announced on Monday that it posed a threat no longer — the odds that the asteroid would smash into our planet have dropped to nearly zero. “I knew this was likely to go away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat ...