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.

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash into the Moon in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4's location forecast is now about 20 percent more precise than it was before, according to NASA. Scientists will have to wait three years — when the asteroid loops back around ...

Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet.

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a close eye on it.

NASA tracks stadium-size asteroid passing near Earth: Here's how to watch it live The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking science.

The Lucy spacecraft will observe the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday afternoon, before it moves on to study a handful of Jupiter trojans starting in 2027.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...