"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

Newly discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten quite a bit of attention over the past week ... and a possible predicted collision with Earth years in the future may not be immediately ruled ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth ... four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets before shooting past Mars and out toward ...

NASA has downgraded the odds of an asteroid ... greatest risk to Earth. A 74 million tonne space rock, called Bennu, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time.

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Astronomers are at the beginning of measuring the space rock’s four-year ... The asteroid was discovered after passing by Earth in December, and after April, it won’t be visible again until ...

Further updates will not be possible until 2028 when 2024 YR4 approaches Earth and becomes bright enough to be detected again ... of an asteroid that have been suggested over the years.

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again ... In the recent past, however, NASA has seen success in changing ...