A potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way to the planet, and many are growing concerned about it including China.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as ...

(AP) - New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ... which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that ...

The odds of a massive asteroid now hurtling through space hitting Earth are small, but they went up this week, media reported Thursday. The so-called 2024 YR asteroid, about the size of a football ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured ... a slightly increased risk of affecting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032 ...

Football field-sized asteroid could hit Earth in 2032 but probably won’t ... If you shift the angle of that line from point A by 1 degree and draw a new line to point C, the distance between ...

However, he said that there is "at least 98 percent chance that the asteroid won't hit the Earth. "The other thing to bear in mind is that we can deflect these things. If it's done early enough ...

That’s why this one now tops ESA’s asteroid risk list. The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth. The good news ...

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave the asteroid a 1.3 per cent chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) said Thursday that ...

At the time of the object’s discovery, NASA calculated that the chance of the asteroid actually hitting Earth—what it calls the “Impact Probability”—was about 1.3%. That means there was ...

The article has been changed to reflect that. The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth have risen, with astronomers increasing the odds from 1.3% to 2.3% that it will strike Earth on Dec ...