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 ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

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

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 ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

Since early January, Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that has a small chance of colliding ...

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

While the chances of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth decreased, the risk of it colliding with the moon went up slightly.

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