YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough is being done to track it, says local astronomer.

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Other “harbingers of doom” in 2025 will include two ‘blood moons,’ a potential fire in the northern sky and a sudden supernova.

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey to the Jupiter Trojans. This flyby serves as a crucial test of its optical navigation system,

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to eventually become the dominant species, that asteroid made us extremely aware of one thing—we are at risk.

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon however, may not be in the clear.

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably close to Earth in 2032.

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.