Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

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

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

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

In December 2024, astronomers detected a new asteroid, named 2024 YR4, which has since captured the attention of space ...

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

Asteroids are ancient chunks of rock that have been circulating the solar ... a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit. Earth gets hit by an asteroid of this size around every couple of ...

Should any asteroids ever do pose a serious threat to Earth, the world's space agencies have for years begun to ... after the notorious Apophis briefly hit a rating of 4 many when it was first ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

Why it’s misleading to say the chances that 2024 YR4 will hit Earth doubled 2024 ... common among newly discovered asteroids, but follow-up observations have always reduced that rating to ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The chances of Earth being hit by an asteroid in 2032 have roughly doubled ... with the latter marking the end of civilisation. But a number of asteroids have recently been given high rankings that ...