Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...

NASA has just issued a chilling update on asteroid 2024 YR4 — a massive, Statue of Liberty-sized rock that now has a growing chance of crashing into the Moon by 2032. Once seen as a low-risk object, ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that asteroid 2024 YR4, initially a potential threat to Earth, now ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...