2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life on Earth if it ever hit the planet.

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

The crater was first noticed because of a strange dip in Earth’s gravitational field. Back then, ground-based surveys using ...

These measurements of an asteroid's thermal emissions "may be helpful for constraining that size ... Earth's surface. It will lose its energy and explode at altitude. Although we wouldn't get a ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much.

YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a ...

Astronomers have constructed a 3D representation of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be one of the biggest objects to ...