NASA announced on Wednesday (July 23) that the space rock is likely to pass close to our planet on Monday (July 28).

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact.The threat is all ...

On 8 March 2025, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no significant threat to Earth in 2032 and beyond.

Observations from Earth showed that by smashing the 610-kilogram craft into the distant asteroid Dimorphos at 6.6 kilometres per second, NASA successfully changed the asteroid's orbit.

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid expected to whiz past the Earth today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 GH," is estimated to be about 120 feet ...

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo‘oalewa.

How far away is Asteroid 2024 YR4 from Earth now? Asteroid 2024 YR4’s current orbit is taking it away from Earth; it’s currently about 51 million miles away, The Sky Live said.