An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and China is preparing to deter it by mirroring a U.S. space test.

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured asteroid 2023 BU when it less than 40,000 km (25,854 mi.) away from Earth earlier this year. It’s closest approach to Earth was about 3,600 km ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

On January 28, the asteroid was placed at level 3 in the Torino impact hazard scale, indicating a close encounter that ... to similarities with December 2023 when there were reports of another ...

The landing site dates back to the same era when the earliest microscopic life forms began emerging on Earth.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently tops the risk list of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies Sentry ... Earlier this month, the odds of the space rock impacting Earth in 2023 were 1 in 83. This means ...

A new near-Earth asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has been detected by astronomers as it made a close approach to Earth recently. The asteroid, detected by a group of astronomers using sophisticated ...

which is a fairly rare distinction meant to represent "a close encounter" that warrants public and scientific attention. "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years ...