Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has cracked the long-standing puzzle of why some asteroids spin smoothly while others tumble unpredictably. New data presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint ...

“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show premieres Sunday, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two enormous "potentially hazardous asteroids" are due to soar through ...

In June NASA conducted an internal tabletop exercise where it gave a team 14 years to deflect a large asteroid that has a 72% chance of hitting Earth. NASA found it doesn't have clear decision-making ...

Each green dot in this image is one of the asteroids that data scientists located with their new AI algorithm. The asteroids were found in existing telescope images from NOIRLab. Artificial ...

On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary defense mission. As Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders ...

ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer. It has spotted potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion. Previously, Gaia ...

ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion. Previously, Gaia had ...

Saturday is International Asteroid Day, commemorating the Earth's largest recorded asteroid impact while focusing on the real danger of asteroids that could collide with Earth. In 1908, a powerful ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 ...