YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

Recent analyses indicate that asteroid 2023 DW is moving at a speed of 25 kilometers per second and is currently situated ...

Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...

It’s the only known juvenile specimen of the Ceratosaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived around 149 to 154 million years ...

Yamaguchi was doing a three-month job in Hiroshima when he headed to work late that fateful day (delayed by forgetting his ID ...

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...