In some ways, 2024 YR4 is one of the most worrying asteroids we have ever encountered. It was, for instance, given a rating ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Donald Trump commends Elon Musk for allegedly finding a tremendous amount of fraud with his DOGE team. 'We believe that America's strength is sufficient to pressure Russia and Putin into peace.' ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth. According to a study published in Science Advances, Bennu's odds of ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

It is covered in craters from collisions with asteroids and comets, making it the most cratered planet in our solar system. Craters and other features on Mercury are named after famous people ...