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

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

NASA on Feb. 24 said, "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet ... require more attention," according to the website of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The odds of impact then climbed to 2.6%, and are now at 3.1%, according to the latest data on NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies website. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an estimated diameter of ...

After reaching seemingly apocalyptic levels yesterday, the odds of “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet have dropped dramatically. NASA announced in an X post yesterday that the ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

"While 2024 YR4 has a very small chance of Earth impact in 2032," read NASA's Asteroid 2024 YR4 website, "it has surpassed the 1% impact probability threshold to warrant formal notification of the ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

NASA has increased the chances of a "city ... According to Syfy's website, the asteroid's potential impact zone spans the Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and ...