The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.
On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The ...
YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been allocated emergency observation time to study asteroid 2024 YR4, which has been classified as potentially hazardous. The space rock was identified in ...
A joint project between NASA and the Indian space program, NISAR will give us a look at the ways Earth's surface is changing.
A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...
NASA will send astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home from the International Space Station early on a previously ...
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made.
After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...
Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.
Standout scorers and an undefeated wrestling performance highlighted some of the most notable performances of the week. Vote for your favorite to be crowned the supernova.
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