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

The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

In our solar system, thousands of asteroids orbit dangerously close to Earth, known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Among them, one asteroid has sparked significant concern: Apophis. This massive ...

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

A new paper outlines how this could be a spectacular one-in-5,000-year event, potentially ejecting material towards Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered on December 27, 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.

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high.

At the time of the announcement in January, the asteroid’s impact probability was reported to exceed 1%. The impact probability describes how likely a hazardous asteroid is to hit Earth.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted a new asteroid named 2024 YR4. What followed was an international effort to track its course, measure its size, and figure out if it might hit Earth.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.