Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about ... While Jupiter takes roughly 12 years to orbit the Sun, asteroids like YR4 only take four, putting it in a 3:1 ...

I suspect it is a piece of an asteroid, probably knocked out of an orbit at ~4.18 AU (its aphelion ... the largest ever returned to Earth (in September 2023), contained organic compounds and ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

For example, Asteroid 2024 MK made an unexpectedly close approach to Earth last year, just 13 days after its discovery. The encounter altered its orbit, bringing it closer to Earth than previously ...

"The 'potentially hazardous' designation simply means over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a chance of impacting Earth. We do not assess these long ...

Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus with NASA, said the asteroid's future orbit in January showed upcoming approaches with the Earth and the Earth was determined to be in the ...