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

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

China has initiated the formation of a planetary defence team to address the potential danger posed by near-Earth asteroids.

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

AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month on a SpaceX rocket.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

We might already be too late to knock ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 out of the way with a tested method, a scientist has ...

A UK volcanologist, Dr Robin George Andrews, has raised concerns about the looming threat of asteroid 2024 YR4, warning that ...

California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month, SpaceNews reports. The Odin spacecraft ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

like NASA’s demonstration of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test in 2022, or evacuating potentially affected regions on the ground, Farnocchia said. The group is continuing to monitor 2024 YR4 ...