The asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth - but new calculations suggest a notable chance of a lunar impact.

In the small chance that the asteroid were to impact, it would not alter the Moon’s orbit,” NASA explained. NASA said that after mid-April, the 2024 YR4 asteroid will be too far away and too ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

While we can't be certain, the analysis could not rule out an asteroid with a rocky composition. If this is the case, the researchers calculated, an impact with Earth would release energy between ...

NASA said that info from the James Webb Telescope showed that asteroid 2024 YR4 is the size of a 10-story building and increased its likelihood to make impact with the moon. Photo courtesy NASA ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil of the oldest known ant, called the "hell ant," which lived 113 million years ago ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...