The James Webb Space Telescope, which is the JWST is the largest and space telescope ever built, is expected to help NASA and ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about ... inner planets before shooting past Mars and out toward Jupiter.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

2024 YR4 follows a highly elliptical, four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets before shooting past Mars and out .

The probability of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 has increased, but experts remain calm.

What to know about 2024 YR4: Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth. What is asteroid 2024 YR4 and why are scientists paying attention to it?

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter ... worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068.