NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards the Earth at more than 22,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring ...
In September 2022, NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid moonlet called Dimorphos at more than 14,000 miles per hour (22,530.8 km/h). The impact was deliberate. The mission, known as the Double ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what you’ll need to catch a glimpse. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaks across ...
NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...