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

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. via REUTERS We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth ...

YR₄ is no longer a threat to Earth, but the moon is not yet safe. Even observations from space have not changed this.

Named 2024 YR4, it was estimated to be between 40m and 90m across, with the potential to cause massive damage if it hit a populated area of the planet. The chances of that happening, however, seemed ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

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