"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

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

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

YR4 is a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) currently being closely monitored by NASA’s planetary defense teams.

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

In the ‘extremely low’ chance the asteroid hits earth, it could strike an area extending from the eastern Pacific Ocean to South Asia, possibly even destroying a city.

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...