For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as a potential ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

YR4 is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, about the size of a large apartment block. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in ...

Earth is no longer on a collision course with asteroid 2024 YR4, but it could potentially collide with the Moon.

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

SpaceX on Sunday night launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 Starlink satellites into space from Florida's coast.

A Texas space company has successfully completed the first successful commercial moon landing, as Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost touched down on the lunar surface and began operating on Sunday.

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

The outlook for a private spacecraft to conduct a fly-by mission of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 looks bleak after a series ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...