Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what ...

Space agency officials have announced a newly-discovered asteroid has a slight chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, previously told Newsweek. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about asteroid?

NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

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