Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

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Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

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In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

Mar. 4, 2025 — The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and ...

Panic is no longer in order: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has just reduced the odds of impact to 0.0017% ...

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