The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we've missed. Thankfully if we do find one hurtling towards Earth, there's hope for humanity ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from.

Unfortunately, other, much larger asteroids have the potential to be far more threatening than entertaining. "Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist for the ...

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified ...