The ESA suggested a spacecraft-based response could be explored if 2024 YR4 turned out to be a serious threat. While Earth is in the clear, the asteroid currently has a 1.7% probability of ...
The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
The asteroid could be anywhere between around 66 to 151 feet in diameter, according to the JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 ...
in turn, was followed by sustained fires. The fires prompted the controlled shut down of all but one of the Starship engines, and communications with the ship was lost. SpaceX says that at the ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered another setback on Thursday after the upper stage of its Starship rocket broke apart for the second launch in a row, sending debris showering back to earth.