Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

The curious minds at What If explore the potential consequences when an asteroid hits Earth in 2025.

Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of three that will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't reach its peak until August.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Get ready for the most anticipated meteor shower of the year, coming to a night sky near you! The Perseids meteor show is known for a high rate of brightly colored meteor streaks and less frequent but ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...