Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

There is a chance that an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, and scientists are recording observations of the asteroid from ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The unassuming asteroid was first spotted in December by scientists at the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

Astronomers have recently increased the chances of a large asteroid striking Earth!As per NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...