The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

The researchers believe similar salty brines may exist on other extraterrestrial bodies, including the dwarf planet Ceres and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032. But scientists say they expect the asteroid’s future trajectory and ...

Estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, the asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032. The object, classified as a near-Earth asteroid because its ...

Though that number’s rising, experts say further research could bring it to zero Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent Last week, NASA reported that a newly identified asteroid has a more than 1 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1-in-45 chance of impacting our planet in seven years. The odds are not a huge concern, at least not yet; this estimate is very preliminary, and if history repeats ...

Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% probability of slamming into Earth in 2032. And yes, that makes it the only one of more-than 37,000 known large space rocks ...