The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...

An asteroid may be heading toward Earth for a 2032 date, but don't worry — it's not looking to crash the party yet ... If Asteroid 2024 YR4 were to slam into the Earth, it would likely cause ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

YR4: Asteroid 2024 YR4 might spare Earth but it poses a threat to Moon. The asteroid that had a good chance of crashing onto ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we’re all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t be crashing into us after all, but that’s not ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.