A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all ...

Witness the potential scale of destruction and long-term consequences of an asteroid impact on Earth. A boy and his father ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

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 ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

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

It rose to the top of the Torino Impact ... NASA has highlighted that even if the asteroid were to hit the Moon, no changes would be made to its orbit. With Earth in the clear, scientists continue ...

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected to miss the planet. But there’s a chance it will smash into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an ... scientists assumed that the Earth’s atmosphere filtered out carbonaceous debris. When an object hits Earth’s atmosphere, it ...

It is the smallest object ever observed by the observatory, the biggest and most powerful ... wonderful The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago.

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...