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

A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside ... "Let me tell you, the most likely scenario is that by the time we lose sight of the object in April this year, the ...

But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ... several times in recent years, NASA’s Paul Chodas recalled to ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

The approach, which is closer than telecommunications satellites, will mark the closest any large asteroid has ever come to Earth, according to the ESA. NASA, ESA prepare to send spacecraft to ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 CG, set to pass Earth safely today at about 1.3 million miles away. Though small, its high speed and proximity classify it as a near ...

In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA, discovered the existence of an asteroid known as 2024 YR4.