Astronomers have opened up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to foreign scientists to determine how much damage the ...

Space stations around the world are urgently collaborating to tackle the threat of a vast asteroid, hurtling towards Earth.

Initial projections estimated a 1% chance of collision, but recent calculations have doubled those odds to 2.3%. Scientists admit, however, that much remains unknown about the asteroid's size and ...

Scientists are closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4 to determine its impact probability in 2032. Is this space rock a real threat to Earth, or is there nothing to worry about? Here’s what the latest ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

and then suddenly become entirely safe," the European Space Agency noted. In the unlikely scenario that the large asteroid does hit Earth, such an event won't necessarily spell doom. Over 70 ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.