While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

Now, a half-tonne Soviet space probe that was designed to endure landing on Venus may be heading our way. Launched in 1972, the spacecraft reportedly never made it past the Earth's orbit and its ...

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

If an asteroid measuring 3,000 feet were to hit the Earth, which statistically happens ... predicted a 3.1 percent probability of impact in 2032, but later NASA confirmed that the risk has ...

The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA. The European Space ...

A recent scare involving asteroid 2024 YR4 has reignited global concerns about space rocks that could hit our planet ... chance it could strike Earth on 22 December 2032. This was the highest ...

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?

In February, news that the probability of another asteroid, 2024 YR4, hitting Earth in 2032 at one point exceeded 3 pct drew attention. Since these asteroids are very small, it is difficult to ...

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth ... flybys in 2028 and 2032, providing scientists ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032. Initial estimates placed the impact probability at 1 in 32, but updated calculations have reduced it to just 1 ...