A Close Call with a Big Rock Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024. Soon after, experts calculated that it had a 1.3% chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032.

A massive space rock is headed our way, but don’t panic just yet. NASA has issued an alert for asteroid 2003 AY2, an enormous 1,200-foot wide celestial body, roughly the size of a football stadium.

HOUSTON—NASA’s Psyche mission spacecraft has resumed solar electric propulsion operations after being successfully switched to a backup fuel line. The solar-powered asteroid probe’s four ...

In 2022, NASA’s DART mission, in partnership with SpaceX, successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid called Didymos, nudging it off course. It was the world’s first real test of how we ...

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4, but fresh looks at the space rock using Webb and other telescopes have now increased its chances of impacting the Moon. After a brief stint as the highest ...

Is an asteroid going to hit the Earth? Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a below 0.5% chance of hitting the Earth, according to observations from NASA and other astronomers.

According to NASA, the Webb data refined the asteroid's projected location on December 22, 2032, by nearly 20%. This revised number has thus nudged the probability of a lunar collision from 3.8% ...