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Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and ...

On March 17, 2026, NASA will be keeping a close eye on two asteroids as they make a notable approach to our planet. While the presence of these near-Earth objects (NEOs) often raises eyebrows and ...

On March 16, 2026, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is set to monitor three significant asteroids that will make close passes to Earth. While the term “close” may evoke images of catastrophic ...

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An asteroid the size of a humpback whale or a school bus shot by Earth late last night, passing beneath Antarctica and posing no risk to the planet. The asteroid, dubbed "2026 EG1" by researchers, ...

An asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, will pass by it according to NASA. New data has narrowed the potential path for Asteroid 2024 YR4, which the European Space ...

An asteroid can shift its orbit with even the smallest push. That became clear when a spacecraft slammed into a small asteroid moon in September 2022 and nudged more than just a local orbit. It also ...

Most people think of asteroids as lonely rocks moving through space. Many are not. About 15 percent of the asteroids near Earth have tiny moons, and that means a lot of them travel as binary systems.

One debate about the origin of life on Earth concerns whether it formed around deep-sea hydrothermal vents or in scars left behind by an asteroid impact. A new review article analyzes recent research ...

Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...