A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

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.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Launched in 2007, the Dawn spacecraft traveled to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to orbit Vesta for 14 months and Ceres for almost four years. Before ending in 2018, the mission ...

While most asteroids spotted tend to get no closer than the orbit of the Moon ... from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter of 329 miles/530 kilometers ...

but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...

man-made debris that was purposefully catapulted into orbit. The "asteroid" they found, was the product of an Elon Musk marketing ploy. In February 2018, Musk put together a crossover of his two ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a ... is a convertible car traveling through orbit? As some spaceflight enthusiasts may recall, the ...

New lab experiments, simulating Vesta's harsh vacuum conditions ... which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022. This achievement marked a key advancement ...