NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, revealing its shattered past, strange spin, and secrets of planetary formation in a major space milestone.

CHILLING new telescope photos of the "city killer" asteroid hurtling towards earth at 30,000mph have been released. The chance of the space rock smashing into Earth when it loops around in 7 years ...

The striking new images of asteroid YR4 2024 were captured by a space telescope in Chile on February 7, and show it in the most detail yet. They were taken through the lens of the Gemini South ...

Sony Pictures has hired Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") to direct their remake of the sci-fi action film "Starship Troopers." ...

Nasa has predicted that a Big Ben-sized asteroid could hit the Moon and has given odds for the destructive collision. The space agency had previously feared the chance of a collision with Earth could ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Image: Odin will take 300 days to catch up with the asteroid one million miles from Earth. Pic: SpaceX Matt Gialich, engineer and co-founder of startup AstroForge, told Sky News that mining the ...

New observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 helped us update its chance of impact in 2032. The current probability is 1.5%. Our understanding of the asteroid’s path improves with every observation. We’ll ...

The possibility of a huge asteroid hitting the Earth and causing “localized damage” in December of 2032 has continued to increase since the asteroid was first detected by the National Aeronautics and ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied ...

This would create a devastating 1.2 mile-wide crater in the Earth's crust. The potential impact zone had included densely populated cities like Mumbai, Lagos and Bogotá. Nasa said the asteroid scare ...

A newly discovered space rock is causing quite a stir and it’s not just among astronomers. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 54-metre-wide chunk of cosmic debris, has been grabbing headlines worldwide. Why?