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

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

Scientists will study the asteroid with the Webb telescope, which can track and maintain data of far-off faint objects, again in May, before the giant space rock disappears into the outer solar ...

The large space rock, named 2024 YR4 ... aftermath should 2024 YR4 have struck Earth as initially feared. If the asteroid were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 ...

For a few weeks in January and February this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 had us all worried ... The JWST also helped scientists study how quickly the space rock heats up and cools down.

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...

An asteroid is headed toward a close approach to Earth on December 22, 2032. But fear not, the Webb Space Telescope just re-confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a nearly 0% probability of crashing ...