YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...

While the chance of a collision remains relatively low, experts are closely monitoring its trajectory due to the possibility ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch an advanced asteroid hunter telescope that will detect and observe asteroids that could pose ...

It’s been a snowier-than-average February in Coeur d’Alene and the rest of the Inland Northwest. As of the weekend, about two feet of snow has fallen at Cliff’s station this month, compared to a ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.

A NASA asteroid tracker explains how scientists are calculating the risk to Earth from asteroid 2024 YR4. MSNBC Chief Plans ...

The outlook for a newly discovered asteroid’s potential impact with Earth is shifting, and scientists say there’s a reason ...

The good news is that if Earth is incredibly unlucky and the asteroid does hit on Dec. 22, 2032, it will not destroy the ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket successfully launched Saturday to deploy 22 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit ...