YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

A planetarium show with live-looped vocal music as a soundtrack? Yes, please. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has ...

An asteroid strike on Earth could exceed the ... one of the top defense think tanks in the U.S. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prohibits stationing nuclear weapons in orbit, or anywhere across ...

As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows, there is more good news in that we are getting better at detecting asteroids. Thanks to the coordination of the United Nations Office for Outer Space ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

Much of the risk is based on an area of "uncertainty" in outer space, where the asteroid may or may not end up, and rising odds reflect new insights into that area, according to Richard Moissl ...