Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

Learn about the increased impact probability of 2024 YR4, an asteroid that has a small chance to hit the Moon in 2032.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | mash mix by ...

Back in 2018, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks using ice-penetrating radar discovered a 31-kilometre impact ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...