NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...

YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

YR4, it appeared, was heading for Earth but more data recorded by the Webb Space Telescope has offered new information about ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.