The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

What happens when NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid? Scientists thought they knew, but the results of the DART ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

An asteroid that sparked concerns about potentially hitting Earth no longer poses a significant threat of slamming into our ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded… but the Moon remains in ...

No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...