The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the 'city-destroying ... chance of 2024 YR4 hitting the moon. If the asteroid does hit Earth, the impact could release a blast ...

It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in the Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") region of the moon's near side on March 2.

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the Earth to slow down asteroids ... for a mission to observe and strike an asteroid with a spacecraft to alter its path around 2030. The asteroid 2024 ...

An asteroid originally thought to have a higher chance of colliding with Earth might instead strike the Moon ... launch a mission around 2030 to study and possibly alter the path of an asteroid.

The rock’s meandering path ignited debate over whether the ... This growing family of moon rocks around Earth is packed with insights about our planetary backyard. One study has already tried ...

Resilience is still in orbit around the Earth and is gradually raising its orbit ready to shoot for the moon. The lander's energy-efficient path will see Resilience attempt to set down in Mare ...