Asteroid

After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer considered a threat to Earth.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

The sample landed with a parachute in Utah, where scientists successfully recovered the materials and are now studying them.

Planetary geologist Ania Losiak is scouring the Odessa crater for the remains of plants and creatures killed by the small asteroid in hopes to better understand what happens when asteroids strike the Earth.

Less than two weeks after it was discovered, asteroid 2023 DW sits at the top of the "risk list" maintained by the European Space Agency.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

Radar and other data indicated that the meteoroid broke apart in the atmosphere, and some fragments reached the ground.

There was no reason for alarm, as a NASA engineer called it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It was only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.