NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth ... burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, and those that reach the ground are called ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4, which threatened to blow huge hole into Earth's crust. If YR4 did hit our planet ... 30km above the ground, as most small ...

Since December, Moskovitz had the Lowell Discovery Telescope trained on the 2024 YR4 asteroid. Scientists at one point projected it had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. 2024 YR4 is now ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...