YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

The asteroid 4660 Nereus is technically considered ... best potential targets for a future spacecraft mission. On December 11, it will be at its closest point to our planet in a twenty-year ...

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles ... asteroid named 2021 BA2 will make ...

Astronomers are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid, as it now has one of the highest impact risks of any significantly sized space rock we've found so far. On December 27, 2024 ...

In December 2020, Hayabusa 2, an asteroid explorer operated by the Japan ... JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 that it would distribute those samples to research institutions across ...

The Geminids are active between Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 each year. This year, the moon will not interfere too much with Geminid meteor hunting as the last quarter moon falls on Dec. 11. A waning ...

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles ... asteroid named 2021 BA2 will make ...