New Webb Telescope data reconfirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, ...

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

YR4 was originally calculated to have a 3.1% probability of impacting our planet on December 22, 2032. The post Asteroid that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

strike it and change the asteroid's path by up to 620 miles (1,000 km). This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.View on euronews ...

Could one of these hit Earth in the near future ... to Earth before they reach the surface. In November 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first planetary ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA ... "It is a potentially hazardous asteroid that may still hit the moon in 2032, and even if it doesn't, it could certainly become ...

had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in modern history. It is known as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning its orbit presents a danger to Earth, according to NASA. It is between 130 and ...