What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

NASA sent a rocket to probe an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 that could hypothetically turn every single person on Planet Earth into billionaires just over a year ago and its employees ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

But Not Too Close NASA has confirmed the approach of asteroid 2019 NW5. The space rock is expected to fly past Earth on 9 ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

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Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...