The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

YR4 initially had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but NASA revised the probability to almost zero. However, ...

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven years from now ... that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited this pattern, as well ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven years from now ... because for a century it appeared that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited ...