In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, ...

NASA warns of a massive 330-foot asteroid, 2025 DT50, approaching close to Earth today, May 14. , Science News - Times Now ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...

In 2022, NASA scientists successfully nudged an asteroid off its course, shortening its orbit by 32 minutes as part of the ...

To give an example, the Chelyabinsk meteor that detonated in the air over Russia in 2013 was only 59 feet (18 meters) in diameter. But it hurt more than 1,500 people, broke thousands of buildings ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially dangerous asteroids and meteors have only seriously materialized in the ...

While these objects have some similarities, there are crucial differences that can help us work out what just passed over our ...