The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based telescopes. NASA plans to use the James Webb telescope t ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Has *** slightly greater chance of hitting the Earth than we first thought when ... this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

Rocks routinely orbit close to Earth, pushed by the gravity of other planets ... Nasa and the European Space Agency have developed technologies to nudge dangerous asteroids off course. Nasa's Double ...