The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing asteroid first spotted in December 2024.

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Getty Images Eros became the first near-Earth asteroid ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in-depth analysis of ...

Asteroid 2014 TN17, a massive 540-foot space ... These organisations leverage a mix of NASA-granted telescopes, radar, and observations from amateur astronomers worldwide to monitor the orbits ...

NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), along with global space agencies, tracks such asteroids using telescopes, radar systems, and amateur astronomers worldwide. If an asteroid of this ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an ... An animation of asteroids approaching the Earth, with elements of this image furnished by NASA. An animation of asteroids ...

NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26 ... They utilise NASA-funded telescopes, radar systems, and observations from worldwide amateur astronomers to ...

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.