At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied ...

The radar images showed the asteroid is roughly spherical and is one of a pair, called a binary system. The space rock has a small moonlet orbiting it from a distance of 1.9 miles (3 kilometers).

The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut. The space agency released the images Monday ...

LICIACube image showing the aftermath of the DART impact. The object at top is Dimorphos, while the object in the foreground is Didymos. Image: ASI/NASA They’re raw and a bit grainy, but ...

The final full-frame image captured by DART prior to its collision with the Dimorphos asteroid. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Start Slideshow NASA’s DART spacecraft was 6.8 million miles from ...

Stock image of an asteroid. Asteroid 2019 AV13, which may be around 700 foot in diameter, is due to pass relatively close to Earth. Stock image of an asteroid. Asteroid 2019 AV13, which may be ...

This animation features a timelapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the ...