A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted 2024 YR4, and a month later scientists concluded there was a more than 1% chance the asteroid would crash into ...

Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has ...

There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon. While scientists have doubled the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, new calculations show that there was a ...