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

A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

For now, it's zooming away from Earth, and its next close pass will not come until 2028. Scientists will be able to get another look at the asteroid then, Harwood said, and determine its orbit ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this rock hits Earth, and those odds will change (and probably go down ...

NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth ... to hunting down undiscovered asteroids and comets. A telescope in Chile—part of one such NASA-funded facility, the Asteroid ...

The chances of Earth being hit by an asteroid ... Nasa says that it will continue to study the asteroid and that it expects the chance of disaster will be revised down as it learns more about ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for ... including “shock waves that can knock down forests and buildings, thermal radiation ...

It’s as if the asteroid has a wide spotlight that’s beaming out ahead of it. Earth is initially caught in the beam, but so is a lot of the space around it. Then, more observations come in.