After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...

NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

While Earthlings may be safe, our latest glance of the asteroid in May, courtesy of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, led ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR₄ is unreachable of our instruments for now. According to the latest observation, an impact on the moon is somewhat more ...

An asteroid that burst onto the scene with an unusually high risk of striking Earth has just had its collision risk upgraded.

creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once-worrisome asteroid. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of ...

YR4, once seen as a major Earth threat, now shows a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. While no longer a ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...

The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed in a NASA satellite image. Estimated to have been 700–1,300 ...