The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.
The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.
NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...
Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...
"All together, we have a better sense of what this building-sized asteroid is like." ...
"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...
A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce ...
The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...
Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...
Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.