The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

For several years, astronomers have been aware of a much-ballyhooed “city-killer” asteroid named YR4 2024, which is hurtling ...

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

A stronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

As predicted, we are most likely completely safe from this small asteroid, but now there's a greater chance of it striking ...

Even though the odds of crashing into Earth are quite low, if it does bang into the planet, a catastrophe would be unleashed.

The James Webb Space Telescope, which has an infrared eye that allows it to track the asteroid further out than optical light ...

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to the planet to minimal levels, but the extraordinary close approach will now offe ...

There are many asteroids that orbit within our solar system. Most are not a threat to earth. However, an asteroid that was ...