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

The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...

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

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

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

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now.The agency announced ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded … but the Moon may still ...

NASA’s eyes were locked on asteroid 2024 YR4, a massive space rock once feared to be on a collision course with Earth ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.