A fast-moving asteroid called 2026 DG7 is set to pass relatively close to Earth. Scientists say it poses no danger, but the event is drawing attention from space agencies worldwide. Why?

In a recent update on March 5, NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, often referred to as a “city killer,” will not collide with either the Earth or the Moon as initially feared. Thanks to new, ...

NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, ...

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere, capturing ultraviolet images to monitor atmospheric ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032! New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the object will pass safely at a distance of more than 20 000 ...

NASA has announced that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a space rock roughly the size of a 20-story building, no longer poses a threat of crashing into the Moon during its close approach in 2032.

Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of ...

For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...