New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.
The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
NASA has concluded that asteroid 2024 YR4, the space rock that briefly alarmed planetary scientists after its discovery in ...
A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.
Overall, Didymos is nearly 200 times more massive than its smaller companion, which explains why shifting the larger asteroid ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.
For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...
A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.