Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

A recently discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, sparked the first-ever global alert from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

YR4, once feared to hit Earth, may now strike the Moon in 2032, with NASA tracking its path using the Webb Telescope., ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration spotted the asteroid 2024 YR4 for the first time; previously thought to have a ...

Even if that happens, NASA assures the moon's orbit will not ... This composite image of asteroid 2024 YR4 was captured with the Gemini South telescope in Chile. Credit: AP Scientists consider ...

The space rock, which is roughly the size of a 10-story building, was previously predicted to be heading for Earth ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

THE football-sized asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an ...