The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles of the Earth — 15 times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by ... (No, we cannot yet send up oil drillers with ...

Credit: Chris Gunn/NASA NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will refocus its gaze in May on 2024 YR4, an asteroid with an estimated diameter of up to 300 ft. that passed undetected more than ...

The mission could encounter the asteroid as early as 2028 ... architectures that could rendezvous with YR4 up to and including its close encounter in 2032. This mission would exploit the software ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. Thirty years ago the ...