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

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon ... of a planetary defence force to deal with the possible doomsday scenario.

European leaders are set for another emergency summit in Paris, as Russia says that it won't allow for British troops on the ground in Ukraine. Elsewhere, Sudanese paramilitaries have announced plans ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...

NASA is urgently studying asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 1-in-43 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Using the James Webb Telescope ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...

Nasa said it is deploying the James Webb Space Telescope to overserve the asteroid. The asteroid will be at its brightest in March 2025 when the first round of Nasa observations is scheduled.

The race to understand more about the asteroid that − as of now − has a 1.8% chance of colliding with the Earth in December 2032 is getting a boost from a heavy hitter in celestial observation ...