A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth ... 0.3% chance of hitting the moon ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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 ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

There are more Gemini South images of 2024 YR4 in the pipeline, but as the asteroid is currently heading away from Earth, it might be a while until we get a really good look at this space rock ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

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

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

The space agency claimed that the dangerous space rock now has a 1-in-38, or 2.6%, chance of hitting ... This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that ...