There is a brutal curiosity on the part of human beings to know everything that happens beyond our planetary border, ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

This would pose no threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizeable impact crater on our planet’s only natural satellite. Tracking an asteroid turns out to be more complex than you might think ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. Whats ...

an operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey in a social media post stated that the asteroid had a 0.3 per cent chance of smashing into our natural satellite.

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

or more than twice the velocity of an Earth-orbiting satellite. It’s that screaming speed that causes even a relatively small asteroid to pack such destructive force, since the faster an object ...