A massive 150-foot airplane-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth tomorrow, prompting NASA to issue a cautionary alert., ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The Meteorite Hunters follows Joshua Howgego's quest to discover and better understand pieces of other worlds.

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...

NASA has announced big relief as the riskiest asteroid, Asteroid 2024 YR4, now has zero chance of hitting Earth. The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped to 0.004%. It's expected to ...

Meanwhile, visitors were allowed to touch a fragment of the asteroid Vesta, which is the second largest asteroid in the solar system, and a moon rock. The organizers also displayed a vial containing ...

The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not mass extinction. While the asteroid is dangerous enough to merit attention from scientists ...