The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

Victor attempts (despite Aaron's machinations) to explore YR4, the asteroid that may or may not hit Earth in 2032.

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck.

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought to have a chance of smashing into Earth But, experts at NASA's ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...