Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in ... Not long after it was discovered, just two days after it zipped right past Earth, NASA and the European ...

After the initial observations in March ... according to the ESA. “Tiny asteroids do hit the Earth all the time, disintegrating in the atmosphere as fireballs; fortunately small ones cause ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

A newly-discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, according to scientists. The space rock - named 2024 YR4 - has a 3.1% chance of crashing into ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the ... just a few months after it starts its survey—and plenty of the asteroids it finds may be those that linger ...

NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in ...