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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

YR4: Asteroid 2024 YR4 might spare Earth but it poses a threat to Moon. The asteroid that had a good chance of crashing onto ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a collision is not likely.

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about an asteroid that is said to be possibly on track for a collision with Earth.

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

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

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

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

What happens when NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid? Scientists thought they knew, but the results of the DART mission left them baffled! What went wrong? Watch to find out!