NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

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Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...