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A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path is dangerously close to our planet’s trajectory in the ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

The chances of a giant space rock striking the Earth have decreased, but NASA and other space agencies are still devising a plan to obliterate it. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a recently discovered planetoid, ...

NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth. Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth. This ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and HelloGiggles. Getty The possibility of a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTLA) – A recently released animation shows ...