The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
As for where it’ll go, David Rankin, an engineer with NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey Project, mapped out a 'risk corridor', ...
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with Earth, according to the United States Geological Survey. Small asteroids ...
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...
There's a slim chance a sizeable asteroid could collide with our planet in 2032, and it's fair to wonder why the powers that ...
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.
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A rare astronomical event will see seven planets align in the night sky on 28 February, marking the last such occurrence for ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.
Scientists say a new 'city-destroying' asteroid has a higher chance of hitting Earth than they first thought. NASA found a ...
YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.