The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

according to experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Previous reports also were off about the asteroid’s size, claiming it would have a diameter between 40 and 90 meters ...

But Nasa's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies also updated the chance of YR4 hitting the Moon – on 22 December 2032 – to 3.8% from 1.7% that was predicted at the end of February 2025.

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

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

Astronomers have discovered a huge single object that will glow near the Earth and the Sun. It is a T-shaped cloud called Eos ...

But, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have updated 2024 YR4's chance of hitting the Moon - increasing it from 1.7% to 3.8%.

China is facing criticism from the U.S. over its plans to expand influence in Chile through an astronomical observatory in ...