YR4, a potential “city-killer,” has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032—but scientists say it might strike the Moon instead. Measuring up to 90 metres wide, the asteroid could create a dramatic ...

Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, inhospitable wasteland that is space. And it's already been seven ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

Step aside, Darth Vader. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Joint Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in 2032.

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to tra ...

YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking into Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said.

Here is NASA's prediction as what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like, as the date and location of a potential 2032 collision are ...

ATLANTA — The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled, now sitting at 2.3 percent. The headlines alone can make one nervous. So, is it something to be concerned about?