World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact. According to NASA’s analysis, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a more ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

For example, the US' Near-Earth Asteroid Defense Demonstration and Validation Mission, known as the "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" (DART) mission, successfully conducted a kinetic impact on ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the rock is potentially even larger than the one believed responsible for ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California.

A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most likely be 2024 YR4, a 130-to-300-foot rock that’s essentially the ...

On Tuesday, NASA said there was a 3.1% chance that the asteroid would collide with Earth in 2032, up from earlier estimates of 2.3% and 1.2%. That is the highest probability any sizable space rock ...