NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two cameras, including the Near-Infrared Camera and ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

Additional observations over the next few months ... highlighted that even if the asteroid were to hit the Moon, no changes would be made to its orbit. With Earth in the clear, scientists continue ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered ... unless they’re about to hit the Earth, and astronomers get lucky. But there is another way scientists ...

New Observations Show the Asteroid That Won't Hit Earth Resembles a Spinning Hockey ... It's now down to virtually zero for the next century, but there's a 3.8% chance it could strike the moon ...