Astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of ...

The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center ...

Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

A recently spotted space rock has suddenly climbed atop astronomers’ threat lists. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way ... the measure could be taken against a space rock the size of a football pitch which is being ...

It’s like the actual path of the asteroid is a cone with its vertex at the present position, opening up in the direction you’re trying to predict. Statistically speaking the rock could be ...

The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a "size range comparable to that of a large building," said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center for ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...