Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

2024 YR4 isn't the largest asteroid out there, but it certainly isn't small, ranging from around 130 to 328 ft in diameter. It is also moving to the solar system at around 38,000 MPH. If it did ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

NASA was recently tracking a large asteroid, known as the "city killer," after finding a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...