Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo ... this asteroid.” NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 ...

Jess joined Newsweek in May 2022 and previously worked at ... times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon ... U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the ...

Jess joined Newsweek in May 2022 and previously ... as "bleeding") in the images," NASA explained. The comet was only first discovered on April 5 last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact ...

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its ...

NASA said Wednesday that new data collected overnight cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. The ...

Scientists are hoping to rule out any chance of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 before it disappears from view. In September 2022, NASA successfully crashed a vending machine-sized spacecraft ...

If YR4 still poses a threat as we approach 2032, we could redirect the asteroid safely away from Earth. NASA demonstrated this capability in 2022, during the space agency’s Double Asteroid ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ... The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close ...

The space rock, roughly 180 feet (55 metres) across - is as tall as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. NASA is deploying the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a potentially dangerous asteroid ...