In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...

WBZ-TV meteorologists Jacob Wycoff and Terry Eliasen give an update on an asteroid's chances of hitting Earth, a planetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to observe the asteroid in March and May 2025 under the director’s discretionary ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

NASA has given a major update on the asteroid 2024 YR4 which had a chance of hitting Earth in 2023 - as the space agency ...

NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now ...

NASA has revised the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, reducing it to 0.28%. There are ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...

Tyson said that although the impact would be 'completely devastating' if it hit an urban area, the chances are extremely slim ...

Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...