YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

A recently discovered asteroid has made the news lately due to a small possibility of impact with Earth, but here is why the ...

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The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

McHenry County College (MCC) invites the community to explore the wonders of Earth and outer space with a series of upcoming ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid ... worlds. On Earth, the compounds ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

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head outside and look to the southwest to spot the super brilliant planet in the night sky Sarah Kuta Such examples of gravitational lensing can help astronomers learn more about the properties of ...