I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

With my 68th birthday hurdling in my direction, I do not spend a lot of time contemplating my mortality. That is true for a myriad of reasons, one being that with my 68th birthday two months and ...

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space successfully launched their Axiom-4 mission early Wednesday, sending four astronauts in what is ...

Pagers exploded across Lebanon in September. Retired Mossad agents, key to the operation, tell 60 Minutes Israel's plot started years ago with getting Hezbollah terrorists to buy walkie-talkies.

Could New York face an asteroid threat in our lifetime? Scientists explain potential impact scenarios, emergency preparedness ...

Because the asteroid has now escaped from our view in its orbit around the sun, Webb's recent observations were also the last chance for humanity to observe YR4 until it reemerges in 2028.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm because of the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The space rock ...