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Prepare for a celestial spectacle! A leviathan asteroid, whizzing by closer to our planet than any satellite, is set to ...
A building-sized asteroid, classified as 'potentially hazardous', will make a close flyby of Earth this week, and you can watch the event through a household telescope or via a free online livestream.
A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to uncover ...
Tonight's the night. Those with telescopes and clear skies have the chance to watch a very speedy asteroid cross a large swath of the southern sky during evening hours across much of the western ...
The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away ...
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...
When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...
Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...
Colorado was rated the second-best state for meteor and asteroid viewing, according to a new study. High elevation, dark skies and numerous observatories contributed to Colorado's high ranking. The ...
Learn more about the processes behind diverting asteroids and how experts must ensure we don't inadvertently knock them back ...