YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as potentially hazardous.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ... all eight billion of us will remain protected for generations to come.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

The rating meant that the asteroid merited astronomers’ attention ... understanding 2024 YR4’s orbit and how close it will come to Earth in the future, he said. Astronomers are at the ...

Asteroids come close to striking the Earth frequently ... she said. “The probability of an asteroid hitting Earth is low, but ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...