Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according to NASA. During the Lyrids ' peak, 10 to 20 fast and bright meteors can be ...

Researchers warn that “city killer” space ... the heavily monitored asteroid’s next close approach to Earth is slated for 2052, although that’s not set in stone so to speak.

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

An update has been given on the “city-destroying” asteroid heading perilously close towards Earth in 2032. The space rock, known as 2024 YR4, was originally thought to measure around 40m (131ft) in ...

The asteroid, thought to be capable of levelling a city, set a new record in February for having the highest chance -- 3.1 percent -- of hitting our home planet than scientists have ever measured.

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from Earth — and scientists aren’t sure what they’re going to find.

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like ...

Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...

There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...