The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Earlier this week, those chances hit a record high ... That allows , which now stands at around 86 Earth radii. There is ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to the planet to minimal levels, but the extraordinary close approach will now offe ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 ...

"Nature already has settled the question. We just don't know that answer yet. That's why the tracking efforts continue," ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Astronomers are currently focused on the asteroid 2024 YR4 which has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Current ...

An asteroid of similar size to the smallest estimate struck Siberia in 1908 and destroyed an area of 800 square miles, twice ...

Forget climate change or another global pandemic, scientists fear a giant asteroid that could destroy an area the size of ...