if in the future we are put in the position that an asteroid is coming for us. This was seen when NASA’s DART slammed into ...

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

Measuring about 1,200 feet wide, 2005 VO5 belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that frequently cross ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

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

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.

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

To mark the 10th anniversary of World Asteroid Day, a global live stream will showcase near-Earth asteroids and highlight ...