The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

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

We interrupt our regular schedule of fish puns and naughty jokes about holes to warn you that a huge chunk of celestial ...