NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

YR4, an asteroid that's the size of a building, was first discovered in December 2024. Astronomers initially predicted the asteroid would hit Earth on Dec. 23, 2032, and it would have enough power ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-storey building could now make impact with the moon, which could potentially fry global communications and send the planet into digital meltdown.

Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete standstill as debris makes its way into the atmosphere and destroys satellites ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...