If that Netflix movie Don’t Look Up didn’t already feel real, then it should feel more real right now. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is slated to pass very close to Earth in December 2032—and might even strike ...

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had been two days earlier ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, as it's been designated, was flagged by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) for its potential to impact Earth on 22 December 2032. "This is one of the highest ...

Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years and it's already triggered international planetary-defense planning. What's the threat level?

“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 ...