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 ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven years from now ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but the moon may still ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Asteroid 2024 YR4, a potentially hazardous object, will not impact Earth in 2032, but future close encounters are possible. This presents an opportunity for a ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

It's an asteroid the size of Germany which would wipe out all human life on earth if it ever hit — which is extremely unlikely to ever happen. The Vesta asteroid has a diameter of more than 300 ...

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid dashing past Earth today at a speed of 38,922 miles per hour. The space rock, known as 2025 DU2, is estimated to be ...

The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old. Lucy will fly past the three ...