For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk has been reduced to zero NASA downgrades 2024 YR4 to Torino Scale Level Zero Scientists to study asteroid during close flybys in 2028, 2032 ...

This asteroid is certainly worth watching because it could devastate a city with a direct hit—even on the small side of its size estimate. At one point, the rock had a 3.1 percent chance of a ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. While its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%, they have now dropped to near ...

What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images) When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out. For now, however ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no immediate threat to Earth, easing initial concerns about a potential collision in 2032. Early calculations raised alarms, estimating a 3.1% impact ...

Whew. Earth has dodged an asteroid scare. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was looming large in humanity's vision. At one point, it was calculated to have a roughly 3.1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec.