The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

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 ...

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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.

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.

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

As a result, it has become clear that, on December 22 2032, it will pass very close to our planet – and may even collide with ...

The odds of near-Earth asteroids colliding with our planet tend to rise in the early days of sighting them. At first we have ...