Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

While NASA says the chances of a collision with Earth are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

It exploded in the air, releasing 20 to 30 times more energy than that of the first ... Earth and becomes fainter, researchers will have to rely on larger telescopes to observe it. The celestial ...

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27 ... meteors and meteorites — impacting Earth. "The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don't bring them very close ...

“It’s only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it’s really far away ... the universe was just 9% of its current age — within the first 1.2 billion years.

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.