At the end of last year astronomers detected a new asteroid named 2024 YR4 but it wasn’t like other solar system travelers.

Last year on the day of Christmas, a football sized asteroid passed close to the earth. It was around double the distance ...

China has begun forming a team of experts to address the threats posed by asteroids and other celestial bodies, Azernews reports ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

Elon Musk wants to expand his tech empire. The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X, adviser to President Donald Trump and the world's richest man is now targeting Artificial Intelligence. Afte ...

So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...

Astronomers discovered the asteroid 2024 YR4 at the end of December. Because the originally calculated probability of a ...

As the chances of the 'city-killing' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth increase, the world's space agencies have made a rare emergency decision.

European Space Agency (ESA) announced about a rare «time-critical» decision that will direct James Webb Space Telescope. At ...

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or Cneos, reviewed the trajectory of the asteroid 2024 YR4 and found that its odds of striking the planet in 2032 doubled to 2.3 per cent up from about 1 ...

Astronomers are turning to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of ...