Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

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An asteroid discovered in December 2024 and named YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. But scientists keep ...

Scientists discussed the threat of asteroids at a recent conference in Phoenix. Here's what they said.

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. The sigh of relief that we weren’t on course ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in late December 2024, is about 60 meters in diameter. Early calculations briefly suggested it ...