A recent scare involving asteroid 2024 YR4 has reignited global concerns about space rocks that could hit our planet in the future. Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines after NASA’s Center for Near ...

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.

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

Apophis, like the recently identified asteroid known as 2024 YR4, was once thought to be on a crash course with our planet. After its likelihood of hitting us was lowered to zero, and some ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth.(AP) The urgency of planetary defense was underscored in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, dramatically ...

Space.com: In recent times, the worry du jour seems to revolve around asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, which apparently has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Why so much attention on that object?

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

Mission team members are investigating how the anomaly may affect plans to study another asteroid. The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be the second ...

An Apollo-class asteroid, 2011 VG9, is approaching Earth at a staggering speed, set to pass on April 16th. While not classified as 'potentially hazardous' due to its distance, its size and ...