Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to form water.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...

A recently discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, sparked the first-ever global alert from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

However, by late February, more precise observations allowed scientists to refine their calculations, reducing the odds of an ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

The team determined that the unusually shaped rock is one of the largest objects in recent history that could impact the Moon and that ... the team determined that 2024 YR4 most likely originated from ...