According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space agency expects to make further observations when the asteroid’s orbit around the Sun brings it back into the vicinity of Earth in 2028.

One of the most anticipated celestial events of the year is set to dazzle skywatchers as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of August 12 into the early hours of August 13. Known for producing bright fireballs and up to 100 meteors per ...

The ESA said the asteroid measured somewhere between one and three metres across. "Tracking down a metre-scale object in the vast darkness of space at a time when its location is still uncertain is an impressive feat," ESA said. "This observation helped ...

Anchor Brian Webb and Executive Producer Trenton Hooker talk with Harvard Professor Avi Loeb on the latest with 3I/Atlas after the International Asteroid Warning Network announced it's tracking the interstellar object.

Officials across the Southeast are investigating reports of a "fireball" seen in the sky, with over 100 sightings reported to the American Meteor Society from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. The National Weather Service received reports of shaking ...

An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over Antarctica at a distance of just 265 miles above the Earth's surface last Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 8:47 p.m. ET, the European Space Agency said on Monday. The International Space Station orbits at a similar altitude.

Illustration of a fireball passing in front of the moon as it crosses through Earth's atmosphere. Fireball meteors fall on the Earth every day but it's rare to see one in the daytime. Illustration by Detlev Van Ravenswaay, Science Photo Library People ...

A meteorite that broke off 2023 CXI and was found in northwestern France Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's ...