Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

NASA is now promising that Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule will fly again in April 2026, this time with no people on ...

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later ...

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

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Astronomers are watching 2024 YR4 closely before it disappears from view. Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space ...

A NASA photographer who captured a photo of the awe-inducing 2024 eclipse from a Midwest location is having his work hailed as among the best images of 2024, the space agency said. The photo by Joel ...

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. On Tuesday, Dec. 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ...

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4. The ...

Houston election officials are working with NASA to deliver absentee ballots to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are stuck in space until at least February 2025 The NASA astronauts ...

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 ...