Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact the Earth in just under eight years. And the odds, overall, seem to be rising.

That's why scientists aren't too concerned – yet – about an asteroid spotted late in 2024 that poses the single biggest impact threat to Earth in two decades. Estimated to be about 130 to 300 ...