Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case ...

President Donald Trump is now asking Congress to claw back $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — an amount totaling around two years' worth of funding — in his ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning, "The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.". A similar ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.

You heard it here first: Earth is safe from a world-ending asteroid—at least for the next 1,000 years. According to a new study—currently posted on the preprint server arXiv and soon to be ...

Scientists have estimated that the asteroid could hit earth on February 14, 2046, but there is no reason to fear. NASA predicts this is still a very unlikely scenario, and it has a plan of attack ...

This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know. Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

How big of an asteroid does it take to damage cities, states, countries, and the planet? On the fourth-annual World Asteroid Day (Saturday, June 30), we take a look at estimates from NASA, Purdue ...

President Donald Trump is now asking Congress to claw back $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — an amount totaling around two years' worth of funding — in his ...