A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

2024 in Chile through the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus with NASA, said the asteroid's future orbit in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 ... Additional telescope observations enabled astronomers to better calculate its orbit. In January, the probability of this asteroid hitting Earth ...

The narrower beam is now moving away from Earth." Image showing the asteroid 2024 YR24's orbit, shown here in red, as it travels nail-bitingly close to Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Thanks to recent ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting ... "Because of the uncertainties, the orbit of the asteroid is like ...

Updated orbit predictions show the chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in seven years has dropped to practically zero, according to NASA. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and ...