An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

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. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Today, the idea of a meteorite crashing into Earth brings fear and images of extinction. But billions of years ago, in a world ruled by single-celled organisms, those impacts may have been just ...

THE enormous asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an alarmingly ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

NASA researchers have updated their estimates for asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously thought to hit Earth. New estimates ...

But the odds that it will instead crash into Earth's satellite have been steadily rising. After the Webb telescope turned its powerful gaze towards the asteroid last month, the chance of a moon ...