NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

In the world’s first successful planetary defence test in 2022, US space agency Nasa altered an asteroid’s trajectory by colliding with it.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ... But more precise telescope observations moved Apophis' range of trajectory off of Earth. The impact probability then plummeted.

But scientists say they expect the asteroid’s future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and analyze more data. Why is this asteroid making headlines? Identifying ...

While that may sound far, in terms of the cosmos, it’s a close approach. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) kept close track of the asteroid’s trajectory with radar and optical ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...