The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...

NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance ...