Back in December 2024, when YR4 was first discovered, the danger was greater. It showed a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth.

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defence efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for ...

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 ...

Asteroid Apophis is one of the most talked-about near-Earth objects, known for its close flybys and the potential risk it poses to our planet. Discovered in 2004, this asteroid has captured the ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

ESA’s new Flyeye telescope is set to transform asteroid detection, spotting potentially hazardous space rocks faster than ...

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

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...