The latest city-killer asteroid updates suggest Asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss Earth entirely, leading astronomers to breathe a ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

NASA researchers say an asteroid known as 2024 YR4 now has about a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, a decrease from a ...

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...

NASA announced the NEO Surveyor mission, which aims to detect and track asteroids that could pose a catastrophic threat to our planet.

YR4: NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032, potentially causing ...

Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...

Insurance companies globally will be monitoring the risks associated with a “city-killing” asteroid that could collide with ...