An expert warns we can't use NASA's DART spacecraft 'whenever we want' so it's just as well asteroid 2024 YR4 is very ...

NASA has officially upgraded the chances of the 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth seven years from now.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

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The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which tracks asteroids and space debris, calculated the motion of 2024 PT5 and determined it was truly a space rock ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...