NASA and the European Space Agency are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, a potential city killer with a 2% chance of ...

Scientists now say an asteroid discovered in late December has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth in 2032. The asteroid isn't large enough to pose an existential threat to life on the planet, but it ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace for deep impact.

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

YR4 could hit Earth in 2032, but the chances are currently tiny based on the latest observations by the scientific community.

Astronomers are working to reduce the uncertainty about the asteroid’s orbit and rule out any impact risk, but it will fade from view from Earth in a few months.

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about what scientists could do to divert a threatening asteroid — and who would be ...