Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

The next close approach of asteroid 2024 YR4 is projected for December 22, 2032, when it may pose a potential danger, with an ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...

NASA currently tracks over 37,000 such objects, ensuring none pose an immediate threat. "Asteroids can come at any moment toward Earth," warned renowned asteroid hunter Franck Marchis.

YR4, the asteroid is estimated to be between 40 m and 100 m wide and is projected to come close to Earth in December 2032.

However, on NASA’s launch schedule is the Psyche mission to uncover a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Originally scheduled to launch in September 2022, Psyche was scrubbed last year after ...

In less than 80 days NASA and SpaceX will launch a solar ... s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. 16 Psyche is a rare metal asteroid possibly comprised of iron, nickel and gold ...

The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 feet in diameter, with JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) estimated that it could be ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...