The 'code red' flight alert issued earlier has now been downgraded to amber. This means there is still the potential for ...

A study reveals why there are at least three asteroids which pose a potential threat to Earth and why current observation ...

An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December ...

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

2024 YR4 asteroid has chance to hit Earth: Scientists NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” a 174-to-220-foot-wide asteroid, in December and found it only had roughly a 1% chance of impacting Earth on its ...

By the end of 2024, Goldstone had detected 55 Near-Earth Asteroids, setting a new annual record for the facility. In 1968, scientists used Goldstone to make the first radar asteroid observations.

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan ...

What would that spectacle look like? Scientists used the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, to discover asteroid 2024 YR4 in December 2024 as a new entrant in the asteroid databases — and it ...

Chance asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent, ESA says Feb 25, 2025 Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier in 2025 when astronomers calculated a slight chance of it impacting ...