YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

At the end of last year astronomers detected a new asteroid named 2024 YR4 but it wasn’t like other solar system travelers.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

SETI Institute In the News The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and the search for ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

It’s an out-of-this-world experiment for a group of Albuquerque middle schoolers working with NASA to send ingredients up to space to make pizza. “I feel ...

If the asteroid's impact probability remains above ... The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was launched in February 1993. The success of SpaceX and other private-sector ...

The dramatic asteroid strike would have spread dust ... in any of the proposed landing spots to seriously hamper geology experiments. If they had been planning to land north of Schrödinger ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...