On december 27th, 2024, the asteroid terrestrial-impact last alert system (atlas) Detected a new asteroid, which was designated 2024 y-r-4.As more observations ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says we needn’t worry about the “mansion-sized” asteroid heading toward Earth. The chances ...

Dubbed "city killer", the space rock now has an estimated 1.5 per cent (or 1 in 67) chance of striking our planet during a ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA.

The drop in odds had been widely anticipated by the global astronomical community, which now broadly expects the probability ...

University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

Elon Musk could bring Marko Elez back to DOGE after the staffer resigned over racist social media posts.

YR4 continues to keep us on our toes as astronomers work to determine its potential threat to our planet, but the latest ...

An asteroid large enough to potentially devastate a city is now deemed significantly less likely to collide with Earth in 2032, based on the latest data from NASA. In recent weeks, the space agency ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

Before the latest measurements made an impact on Earth seem less likely again, 2024 YR₄ broke a decades-old record.