A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has jumped to the top of risk lists after triggering automated warnings in December. Experts say the chance of impact in December 2032 has nearly doubled to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

YR4, previously dreaded to crash into Earth, is no longer a risk after fresh information altered its path, but it has a 2% ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling ... what an impact with Earth would look like. “It is the highest [threat ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Scientists have revealed the results of studies on samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu ... By studying asteroids like Ryugu, scientists can get a deeper look at the past, and the part that ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Unfortunately for NASA engineers, the asteroid’s surface is nothing like what they assumed it would ... or at least until scientists got a good look at Bennu’s surface. As Sky & Telescope ...

rex in a space suit, swaggering to a rocket like John Glenn in The Right Stuff — they might have been able to detect that incoming asteroid decades ... But the discoverer does get to propose ...