He said he isn’t worried about any asteroids now, and it would take ... it and any observations are reported to the Minor Planet Center. From here other astronomers can help track it or provide ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

YR4 is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, about the size of a large apartment block. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in ...

(Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images) A White House science advisor recently joined forces with space agency leaders worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to a ...

Representative image created using AI. This weekend, two asteroids – 2025 DE5 and 2025 DB22 – will make close approaches to Earth, travelling at alarming speeds. While they are not expected to hit our ...

Sedona Red Rock News Managing Editor and Sedona Poetry Slam founder Christopher Fox Graham has become the second Sedona resident to have a celestial body named after him with the recent redesignation ...

The Chen Cheng-po Cultural Foundation yesterday announced that a minor planet has been named after late Taiwanese artist Chen Cheng-po (陳澄波). The International Astronomical Union in January approved ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

The gravitational influence of the planets on Earth is negligible compared to that of the Moon and the Sun. While some speculative theories suggest minor influences on solar activity, these are ...