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

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

It's the moon's last easily visible occultation of Saturn for 11 years. The Virtual Telescope Project will host an online observation from 17:15 UTC (12:15 p.m. EST) on Saturday, Jan. 4 ...

First spotted last month ... show the asteroid also ventured close. If scientists can find the space rock in images from then, they should be able to determine whether it will hit or miss the ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting ... bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed close to Earth in 1992.

On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind ... She has seen multiple meteor showers, has seen a partial solar ...

Things are looking bright in the new year already, kicking off with meteor showers ... Also this month, Venus and Saturn will come “just a couple of finger widths’ distance” apart ...