In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

At the end of last year astronomers detected a new asteroid named 2024 YR4 but it wasn’t like other solar system travelers.

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

NASA and the European Space Agency are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, a potential city killer with a 2% chance of ...

SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect the asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...