There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might ...

After asteroid 2024 YR4 first flew into view of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...

YR4: everything to know about the potential "city killer" space rock that has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...

Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be utilized by scientists to get a better understanding of asteroid '2024 YR4,' which holds a small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Olivia Zollino reports. US ...