The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 using telescopes in Río Hurtado, Chile, part of the NASA-funded Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) facility. The asteroid is estimated to be ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of ...

“But it deserves attention.” First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 using telescopes in Río Hurtado, Chile, part of the Nasa-funded Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) facility. The asteroid is estimated to be ...

The asteroid which is called 2024 YR4, was discovered on December 27 2024 at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. Shortly after its discovery, ...

Philipp Heck, the Robert A. Pritzker Associate curator of meteoritics and polar studies at the Field Museum of Natural History, will give a talk titled "Recovering a Record of Asteroid Collisions in ...