A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km) of Earth on June 5 and you can watch it happen live online.

"Everything I had studied had basically gone to waste." Students are expressing their frustration over a Regents exam they say did not match the curriculum they were taught.

Six of Blue Ghost’s payloads are already sending initial data back to Earth, while one payload, LuGRE, began its science operations, according to a Firefly Aerospace statement.

Grade Level: 5th GradeSubject: ScienceDuration: 2 hours (can be split into two 1-hour sessions)Standards: Ohio's Learning Standards for Science (Grade 5, Earth and Space Sciences) Lesson Objectives ...

He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. Read more. Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbit ...

This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know. Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The space rock, which briefly had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, is now expected to pass safely. The astronomer who invented the scale used to measure such risks explains the dizzying shifts.

UPDATE 05/12/25 8:50AM: Russian space agency Roscosmos has confirmed Kosmos 482 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 2:24AM on May 10 before harmlessly splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of ...

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2025; 12 (1) ... New data on atmosphere from Earth to the edge of space ... Feb. 5, 2025 — Earth systems models are an important tool for studying ...

Science Space • 5 min read . ... A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid named 2024 PT5 in its orbit.