The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rose and fell last week. NASA's impact odds are now so slim that ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to observe the asteroid in March and May 2025 under the director’s discretionary ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

NASA has given a major update on the asteroid 2024 YR4 which had a chance of hitting Earth in 2023 - as the space agency ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch an advanced asteroid hunter telescope that will detect and observe asteroids that could pose ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...

It’s been a snowier-than-average February in Coeur d’Alene and the rest of the Inland Northwest. As of the weekend, about two feet of snow has fallen at Cliff’s station this month, compared to a ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a ...

The outlook for a newly discovered asteroid’s potential impact with Earth is shifting, and scientists say there’s a reason ...