"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

Earth may no longer be threatened by an impact from the asteroid 2024 YR4, but that doesn't mean this 200-foot-wide space rock can't still impact our lives.The asteroid, which at one point had a 1 in ...

A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study published in the American Astronomical Society, the asteroid 2024 YR4 has 1 ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...