Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Emporia State University's Peterson Planetarium is all about asteroids in March, with a focus on one asteroid in particular.

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

Recent observations have significantly lowered the impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 with Earth. Initially estimated with a 3% chance, new data from the European Southern Observatory shows the ...

The first is to gather more observations on this pass. Although the asteroid is rapidly disappearing, larger telescopes will be able to see it until early April. Additionally, “2024 YR4 will ...

Okay, I am being overly dramatic by the title, the asteroid YR4 was initially projected to have a 3.1% chance of hitting the ...

Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft has got a new target in its sights. New photos have emerged of a small asteroid named Donaldjohanson.