NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially flagged as a potential threat, poses no significant danger to ...

NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a “significant threat” to Earth in 2032 or beyond. ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...

Astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson shows "CBS Evening News" co-anchor Maurice DuBois the path of ...

Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, made major headlines, with NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

A second mission would land on the asteroid and test for platinum and other elements - the first mining expeditions could ...

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

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

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...