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 ...

The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was sodium carbonate, which had never been observed before in any other asteroid or meteorite. As it incorporates water into its crystal ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a hazard to Earth, according to the James Webb Space Telescope Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...

as a part of their crystal structures, according to Zega. “The fact that we find them [water-bearing silicates] in major abundance in asteroid Bennu suggests that at some point in its history ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

Languages: English. The asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth, resulting in major destruction to the area it could impact, per the BBC.

The asteroid entered the atmosphere Tuesday morning in northeastern Siberia. A small asteroid was visible in northern Siberia on Tuesday, as it closed in on its collision course with Earth.