New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based telescopes. NASA plans to use the James Webb telescope t ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still ...

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

We do have options beyond "taking a hit", as Dr Kumamoto puts it. Nasa and the European Space Agency have developed technologies to nudge dangerous asteroids off course. Nasa's Double Asteroid ...

In some ways, 2024 YR4 is one of the most worrying asteroids we have ever encountered. It was, for instance, given a rating on the hazard-measuring Torino scale of 3, the second-highest ever given ...

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...