The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has jumped to the top of risk lists after triggering automated warnings in December. Experts say the chance of impact in December 2032 has nearly doubled to ...

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science ... what their surface looks like," Kareta said. "The problem is that you need to look at them in a lot of different techniques ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling ... what an impact with Earth would look like. “It is the highest [threat ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

astronomers maintain that studying them could help the world's space agencies in mounting a planetary defense if the day ever comes that an asteroid does pose a threat. As of October, a craft from the ...

Scientists have revealed the results of studies on samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu ... By studying asteroids like Ryugu, scientists can get a deeper look at the past, and the part that ...

Unfortunately for NASA engineers, the asteroid’s surface is nothing like what they assumed it would ... or at least until scientists got a good look at Bennu’s surface. As Sky & Telescope ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

rex in a space suit, swaggering to a rocket like John Glenn in The Right Stuff — they might have been able to detect that incoming asteroid decades ... But the discoverer does get to propose ...