YR4, measuring between 130 and 300 feet, could impact Earth in 2032 with a 1.9% chance. It has garnered global attention, but ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations of its orbit showed something concerning: there was a remote possibility ...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

"It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will fade from view before we are able to entirely rule out any chance of impact in ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

NASA has issued a message message after reports of the discovery of a ‘city-destroying’ asteroid, 2024 YR4, that could hit ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early ...

Astronomers have long sought to find the origin of the building blocks of life, and how elements like carbon, which are essential for life, spread across the universe. Recent findings using data from ...