Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...

NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space agency warned the likelihood of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking us in 2032 had ...

Countless celestial objects traverse the cosmos, each with its own unique characteristics and potential impact, literally, on Earth. Among ...

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

First spotted in December 2024, YR4 is estimated to be between 130 and 330 feet in size, roughly equivalent to a 40-story ...

Weeks after the asteroid's discovery, China’s defense agency announced three key vacancies in its planetary defense ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

VIDEO: Scientists are tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December 2032 as it approaches ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers study asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of striking Earth ...