Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science community has a nearly 98% chance of zooming by Earth without ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest ...

We don't yet know. "My colleagues and I have been paying attention to potentially-Earth-impacting asteroid 2024 YR4, which Torino 1 initially and now is Torino 3 ('merits attention by astronomers ...

“But it deserves attention.” First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 ...

An asteroid roughly similar in size impacted a remote region of Siberia in 1908, obliterating 800 square miles of forest. 2024 YT4 comes in at a three on the Torino Impact Hazard scale ...

Scientists think that 2024 PT5 could be part of a hidden population of lunar asteroids: parts of the Moon that have been ejected into space over millions of years by asteroid or comet impacts.