NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

making it the most dangerous space rock since the inception of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) Sentry Risk Table over ten years ago. This collision probability dipped down to ...

NASA recently tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a 3 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. New data shows it's no longer a threat, but the incident highlights the need for strong ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

YR4, previously dreaded to crash into Earth, is no longer a risk after fresh information altered its path, but it has a 2% ...

After Webb's observations, the odds of YR4 crashing into the moon rose from the 1.7% figure calculated in February to 3.8%, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks ...

ESA, NEO COORDINATION CENTRE Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) explains that “thanks to recent optical and radar observations, the uncertainty in Apophis ...

YR4 asteroid has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, but a slim chance of hitting the moon, new research says.