A week ago, the asteroid set a new record for having the highest probability of hitting Earth -- 3.1 percent according to ...

Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring Festival and New Lunar Year ...

Radar images captured by China's Zhurong Rover found evidence of a series of subterranean ridges indicating that a long-since dried up ocean once had a sandy shore.

University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.

The chances of an asteroid as large as the width of an NFL field striking Earth continue to tick up, according to NASA. The ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

A former astronaut has shared a worrying prognosis for the world about what could happen if the 2024 YR4 asteroid hits the planet in seven years. The now-retired spaceman Chris Hadfield ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead. An asteroid that's big enough ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...

China has launched a recruitment effort for a planetary defence team following risk assessments indicating that an asteroid could potentially collide with Earth in 2032. On Friday, the European Space ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...