NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

The 'other Atlas' comet that should have died near the Sun turns GOLDEN

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) discovered a comet in May, which shouldn't have survived its trip to the Sun, but it is still around. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has turned into a ...

NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Video games can make climate change real for players - here's how

The ice caps have melted. Continents have been reduced to a handful of islands. Survivors seek to rebuild what is known as ...
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Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

2 Spooky Flashes Lit Up the Moon. Here’s What Made Them.

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...
New Scientist

NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...
Space.com

Watch an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument zoom past Earth live on Sept. 18 (video)

A potentially hazardous asteroid spanning the length of the Washington Monument will make a safe, close approach to Earth on Sept. 18 and you can watch the flyby live online courtesy of the Virtual ...
Phys.org

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues. The ...
USA Today

Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections

After YR4 was first discovered in late-2024, its odds of impact with Earth briefly rose to historically high levels before it was eventually ruled out as a threat during an upcoming flyby. Because the ...
Oregonian

NASA spacecraft expected to have close encounter with asteroid

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be ...
SlashGear

The First Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Vanished In Space: Here's What Happened

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission. Strapped ...