YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

NASA releases rare image of Mount Everest taken from space shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission in 1996, showcasing the ...

Joining it's twin to continue decades of research mapping the height of the Earth's oceans, the Sentinel 6B satellite is set ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

NASA's two stuck astronauts may end up back on Earth a little sooner than planned. The space agency said Tuesday that SpaceX ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Two NASA astronauts, stranded at the International Space Station since June, could return to Earth weeks earlier than ...

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matt Dominick answered questions from the audience and discussed daily life on the ISS.