YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA's preparations for studying Asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA and ESA are gearing up for a close pass of asteroid 2024 YR4 in December 2032. The passage offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to observe the ...

(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles of the Earth — 15 times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by ... (No, we cannot yet send up oil drillers with ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

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.

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines as it became likelier and likelier that this thing would hit Earth. Scientists were watching it closely, as it’s impact probability ticked up ...

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its orbit around a larger space rock ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...