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

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

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

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

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

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

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

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed ...