In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

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This also means that the asteroid has currently been downgraded on the Torino Scale, which is a color-coded scale that astronomers use to assess the risk of an asteroid or comet hitting Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

This year’s rare total lunar eclipse, also known as the Blood Worm Moon, will paint the sky red between March 13 and 14.

It is a scale of 0 to 10 with color coding that is "intended primarily to facilitate public communication by the asteroid impact hazard monitoring community." 0 indicates no hazard in the White ...

An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — but the precise odds have been a ...

Spectral imaging (which measures different colours of light to give an indication of composition) will hopefully allow us to better understand what type of material is on the surface of the asteroid ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught most of a dust devil plume in this 2008 image. The HiRise camera team said, "We got ...

The space agency recently flagged a "city-killer" asteroid that had a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth.

An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has ... and other cosmic objects may pose to the planet. The scale is color-coded, with categories from 0 (white for no hazard) to 10 (red for certain ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. space agency NASA is using virtual reality (VR) technology to train crew, flight controllers and ...