University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.

The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

A stronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to the planet to minimal levels, but the extraordinary close approach will now offe ...

On december 27th, 2024, the asteroid terrestrial-impact last alert system (atlas) Detected a new asteroid, which was designated 2024 y-r-4.As more observations ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 ...

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements ...

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