Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

SpaceX was set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon, but has retargeted efforts to Saturday. A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 ...

The asteroid named "2024 YR4," which is about the size of a football field, now has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.

Astronomers are keeping a close watch on a newly discovered near‐Earth asteroid that, while highly unlikely to hit Earth, remains under intense international scrutiny.

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...