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

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Elon Musk has made unfounded claims that two NASA astronauts were left on the space station for "political reasons" after ...

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

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...

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

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

The cloud cover isn't what it used to be, and scientists say it is helping fuel Earth's hottest temperatures on record.

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...