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

YR4: NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032, potentially causing ...

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight ...

Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space Telescope is set to fix its gaze on the ...

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

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

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

Scientists are hoping to rule out any chance of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 before it disappears from view. In September 2022, NASA successfully crashed a vending machine-sized spacecraft ...

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

NASA in 2022 tested a potential technique to deflect future, Earth-threatening asteroids with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The agency sent a spacecraft to crash into a harmless ...

If YR4 still poses a threat as we approach 2032, we could redirect the asteroid safely away from Earth. NASA demonstrated this capability in 2022, during the space agency’s Double Asteroid ...