After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a new update on asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing important findings that refine ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter.

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

2024 YR4 asteroid has chance to hit Earth: Scientists NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” a 174-to-220-foot-wide asteroid, in December and found it only had roughly a 1% chance of impacting Earth on its ...

Researchers have managed to work out the shape of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, saying it is shaped like a hockey puck. Astronomers have also deduced the asteroid's origin, which was first detected in ...

While chances of an Earth impact have dropped significantly, the possibility of a Moon hit has doubled since 2024 YR4's discovery. In February, the Moon had about a 1.7% chance of an impact from ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an alarmingly high 1-in-26 chance of smashing into the lunar satellite, according to NASA's latest chilling update. The space rock ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% ...