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

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

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

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

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

Now, what would happen if a big asteroid was confirmed to be on a collision course impact path with Earth? While our asteroid detection systems are way ahead of our asteroid defense systems ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

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

If the asteroid’s path ends at Earth, NASA isn’t helpless, Fieber-Beyer said. For the first time in known history, NASA's DART mission in 2022 was able to deflect an asteroid with a kinetic ...