The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, kindly provided his measurements for use in this article during an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

It's been traveling through space for billions of years, not too far from Earth. But rather than fear this asteroid, ...

NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper and stadium will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. NASA says it will happen around 9:41 a.m. EST. There's no chance of ...

In what seems to be the backstory of a doomsday science fiction flick, NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. Here's what we know about Asteroid 2024 YR4, and ...

Ultra-precise tracking of the spacecraft and its motion around Bennu, reflected in slight changes in probe's radio signals, allowed researchers to nail down the parameters of the asteroid's orbit ...

In fact, nothing compares to it since Apophis, a cruise-ship sized asteroid discovered in 2004. It was initially thought to have a 2.7% chance of hitting Earth in 2029, but that probability was ...