The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of ...

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

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 ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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 ...

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 maintain that studying them could help the world's space agencies in mounting a planetary defense if the day ever comes that an asteroid does pose a threat. As of October, a craft from the ...

The space forecast for early March looks a bit … well, rocky. An asteroid 100 feet in diameter ... will go out — and March will come in — like a lamb in South Florida. Unseasonable warmth ...

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 ...