Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

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

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

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% 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.

There is currently a 0.28% chance that 2024 YR4 will strike Earth on December 22, 2032 – a drop from 1.5% yesterday – ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million ... known large asteroid to hit our world. Planet killer asteroids are space rocks ...

Thursday morning, NASA announced that the odds of impact have been reduced to .28%. Those odds had been as high as 3.1%, the ...