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

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The space agency said that "NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future" and "the range of possible locations ...

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an asteroid or comet. He led the establishment of the Planetary Defense ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

NASA has notched a pair of Emmy nominations for its coverage of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, which garnered 40 million views ...

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became ... according to NASA. YR4 and its much larger cousin, the equally infamous Apophis ...

The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a stadium ... for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier in 2025 when astronomers ...