"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck.

While the goal of planetary defence is to prevent asteroids from reaching our planet, this gathering goes far beyond technical assessments.' ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought to have a chance of smashing into Earth But, experts at NASA's ...

Researchers have managed to work out the shape of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, saying it is shaped like a hockey puck. Astronomers have also deduced the asteroid's origin, which was first detected in ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...