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

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

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, ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which has an infrared eye that allows it to track the asteroid further out than optical light ...

How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in ...

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

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

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

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1 percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...