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

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

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

China has initiated the formation of a planetary defence team to address the potential danger posed by near-Earth asteroids.

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

A UK volcanologist, Dr Robin George Andrews, has raised concerns about the looming threat of asteroid 2024 YR4, warning that ...

We might already be too late to knock ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 out of the way with a tested method, a scientist has ...

DART and Hera: Missions to test, study asteroid-obliterating tech The ongoing scientific preparation is not just about observation. In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

NASA has already successfully achieved such an intentional impact during its unprecedented DART mission in 2022. But this was only a test on the non-threatening asteroid Dimorphos; it's not a ...