For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in diameter. Most pose no risk. But NASA estimates that only about 43% of nearby ...

Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

New research suggests that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov arrive near Earth far more frequently than ...

It is being called a "planetary parade" as seven planets are expected to be seen in the Earth's night sky on Friday, ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

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

YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of ...

NASA has confirmed asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses any risk to Earth, downgrading it to Torino Scale Level Zero.

NASA has all but ruled out asteroid 2024 YR4 as a danger to Earth, reducing its impact probability to just 0.004% in 2032. However, a small risk remains for the Moon. Scientists are seizing the moment ...