When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two ...

The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of these space rocks were only discovered earlier this month, according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard.. The largest of them, dubbed ...

Earthlings have been cataloguing asteroids since the 1800s, but most were discovered in recent years. Approximately 2,500 of the known asteroids are potentially hazardous to us.

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

But the fact that potentially hazardous asteroids do exist is a big part of why countries want to build asteroid monitoring systems. It’s also a big part of why NASA’s recent DART Test was ...

The odds of newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have risen from 1.3% to 2.2%, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). This figure is as of Monday ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent ... the asteroid Apophis was once considered one of the most hazardous asteroids, ...

Astronomers have discovered six asteroids that are ‘potentially dangerous to Earth’. But is there a reason to panic? Venus, our celestial next-door neighbour, is hiding possibly hundreds of ...

Four large “potentially hazardous” asteroids – one the size of a skyscraper – are expected to pass by Earth on Thursday, astronomers say. The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of ...

Largest of the asteroids is about 580ft wide, Nasa says Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine Skip to main content ...