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 NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

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.

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

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

As a member of the Apollo group, a collection of asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit, the asteroid had recently passed relatively close to Earth in late December 2024. Early calculations ...

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 ...

While the potential threat to Earth from 2024 YR4 is all but gone, as the uncertainties in its orbit have been narrowed down, it has actually become more likely that this asteroid will strike the ...