Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the Apophis asteroid. New data has since lowered the impact risk to 1.5% ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has ...

Even then, Apophis has mostly stayed out of the news, but 2024 YR4 is currently a hot topic of discussion. It should also be noted that the ‘city-killer’ asteroid is relatively smaller than ...

From record-breaking to nonthreateningEarly last week, 2024 YR4 briefly broke a record once reached by the asteroid Apophis after it was first spotted in 2004.At its peak threat level, 2024 YR4 ...