NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

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"It has been included in the potentially hazardous list," the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said ...

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