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.

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

But fear not, the Webb Space Telescope just re-confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a nearly 0% probability of crashing into Earth. That said, astronomers are unable to rule out a possible impact ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Water did not come to Earth from asteroids – it was already here, a new study by the University of Oxford has suggested. Many ...

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

Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small asteroid named Donaldjohanson for any danger it poses to Earth ... two smaller cosmic bodies crashing into one another.