NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth.

JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...

This story has been updated to correct the date of the meteorite sighting. An unconfirmed meteorite lit up the sky over Michigan Sunday evening, Dec. 7, according to the Michigan Storm Chasers, a ...