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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.
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.
Is an asteroid going to hit the Earth? Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a below 0.5% chance of hitting the Earth, according to observations from NASA and other astronomers.
First Chinese mission to sample an asteroid starts its journey Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet.
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 launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 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 ...
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon.
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a building-sized space rock ...
Daksh Malik, a 14-year-old student from Noida, has made an asteroid discovery that earned him recognition from NASA.
NASA has updated the asteroid 2024 YR4's trajectory, confirming it will pass safely by Earth in 2032, but still with a 1.7 percent chance of impacting the moon.
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