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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

Theres a 1.2% chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth along that red belt just before Christmas of 2032. While the asteroid's potential impact is being taken seriously, scientists are urging the ...

Those odds may seem pretty good (assuming you're hoping for a miss), but consider this: The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a global collaboration started in 2013 to monitor and track ...

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is far from a static rock drifting through space. Its complex geology and cryovolcanic activity hint at an active history stretching billions of years.

Astronomy doesn’t stop. On Christmas Day 2024 researchers made a significant discovery with the identification of a 196-foot asteroid hurtling towards earth. The space rock is currently around ...

According to NASA’s analysis, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a more than one percent chance of colliding with Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032 —meaning there is still about a 99% chance that it ...

A Mysterious Image Was Supposed to Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane. Searchers Found Only an Illusion. Trump administration erases mention of climate change and LGBTQ+ health data from key government ...

A newly-discovered 100 metre wide asteroid heading towards Earth has triggered a planetary defence response group. Spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid - designated ...