Although asteroids make for splashy headlines, the likelihood of them creating a humanity-ending event is very unlikely.

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared it might collide with Earth. However, after detailed ...

Based on observations with one of the two Gemini observatories, a US research team has created a three-dimensional representation of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR 4 and also discovered that it ...

Researchers have managed to work out the shape of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, saying it is shaped like a hockey puck. Astronomers have also deduced the asteroid's origin, which was first detected in ...

Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin. The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a ...

open image in gallery Artist’s illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies by the Earth and heads toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R Proctor) It would be one of the ...

A comedic story about four lies that ruined Christmas. Vatican reveals official ... Panic no more! Asteroid 2024 YR4 risk level drops back down for impacting Earth in 2032.

A team of astronomers recently studied the asteroid in more detail using the Gemini South telescope in Chile. The researchers ...