The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

In 2022, NASA performed a first-of-its-kind test. The agency intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid, nudging it just enough to change its trajectory. The mission gave the space ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 amid concerns that it could collide with the Moon in 2032. While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth, new ...

A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable metals, in service of the company’s ambitious goal of mining asteroids for profit. AstroForge was also hoping to become the ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

It's relatively small — just 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 meters) across. But it's classified as an Apollo-type asteroid, meaning its orbit regularly intersects that of Earth, thus creating the ...