Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid ...

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar ...

In a recent update on March 5, NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, often referred to as a “city killer,” will not ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory were focused on using the Webb telescope because the asteroid has been extremely difficult to observe since last year. A ...

Asteroids regularly pass through Earth’s cosmic neighbourhood, and most of them never attract public attention. Every so ...

The probability of the asteroid hitting Earth has fluctuated over the past few weeks Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously ...

On April 8, 2024, people across the world witnessed a solar eclipse, a relatively rare event in which the moon occults (blocks out) light from the sun. To capture this event, volunteers at 143 ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.