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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.