Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

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

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By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

“If the asteroid has a darker surface, that number is too small; if it has a more reflective surface, that number is too high,” David Rankin, an engineer at the Catalina Sky Survey, told Space ...

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

“Triggering an explosion a certain distance away from an asteroid is extremely complex and nobody would agree to test it before a real threat is identified so you really would have a total lack of ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of ...