"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

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

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability of colliding with Earth. It’s approximately the size of a jumbo jet and ...

Estimates of the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 have gone down to near zero, but that doesn't mean Earth is safe.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. space agency NASA is using virtual reality (VR) technology to train crew, flight controllers and ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In the early morning of March 14, a total lunar ...

Using cutting-edge technolog, NASA's radar imaging uncovered Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War-era military base buried 30 ...