An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according to NASA. During the Lyrids ' peak, 10 to 20 fast and bright meteors can be ...

The Kenya Space Agency has cautioned the public to stay vigilant amid concerns that debris from a rocket body could fall ...

A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush with Earth—and it might even slam into the Moon. Recently, astronomers got a closer look at the giant space rock, revealing its violent ...

But new direct observations of the asteroid by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest a nearly 4 per cent chance of the rock smashing into the Moon. Scientists say that even a 1 per cent ...

For a few weeks in January and February this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 had us all worried. Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting ...

Artist's impression of ESA's Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), which will rendezvous ... More with the asteroid Apophis and accompany it through its extremely rare flyby of Earth in ...

An asteroid is headed toward a close approach to Earth on December 22, 2032. But fear not, the Webb Space Telescope just re-confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a nearly 0% probability of crashing ...

This asteroid is estimated to have formed a whopping 150 million years ago. Liftoff of the Bandwagon-3 mission is set for an hour from now. SpaceX Dragon docking to International Space Station ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA). "The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think ...

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...