The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a tiny but dense fireball gave birth to the vast cosmos that holds trillions of galaxies, ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier ...

Now Aiming for the Moon? Yes, you read that right. Revised estimates now suggest that Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon - also on Dec 22, 2032. Which gives us a cosmic plot ...

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

Earlier this year in February, updated data from the CNEOS showed the Earth impact probability of the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" in 2032 was at 3.1 percent, which was "the highest impact ...

At first, asteroid 2024 YR4 seemed like a potential threat to Earth, but that risk has since been greatly reduced. The asteroid is estimated to be between 30 and 65 metres wide. Meanwhile, the chances ...

Discovered just a few months ago, asteroid 2024 YR4 quickly raised alarms in the astronomy community. At one point, scientists feared it might collide with Earth, potentially wiping out an entire ...

In February, I wrote about an asteroid (2024 YR4) that originally had a 3.1% projected chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. As its orbit became more predictable, this was lowered to virtually 0%.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock.The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...