About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...

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

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

According to Live Science, astronomers estimate a 1.7% probability that the asteroid will strike the lunar surface on December 22, 2032. Such a collision could result in a crater up to two ...

Ground-based telescopes that observe visible light can only see the sunlight reflected off of the asteroid's surface, leaving big questions about its true nature. "In general, the brighter the ...

Space experts have issued a major update into an asteroid which was expected to ... and suspect that it could impact the lunar surface. An international team of astronomers wrote in a research ...

Another option would be to use a large laser to evaporate the asteroid’s surface, driving it onto a different trajectory, as suggested in a paper from the University of California, Santa Barbara. By ...