YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

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

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass near Earth at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers on March 5, 2025. Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 DU2, a 160-ft space rock traveling at 62,650 km/h, passing Earth at a distance of 542,000 km on ...

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.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...