With the first round of Webb observations complete, the chances of 2024 YR4 impacting the Moon isn't zero. "While an Earth ...

Unlike larger asteroids, 2024 YR4 exhibits unique thermal behaviour—likely due to its rapid rotation and a surface dominated ...

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the earliest evidence of light shining through the cosmos. But the fact that ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

YR4 asteroid has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, but a slim chance of hitting the moon, new research says.