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 ...

NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

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

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

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 ...

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

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

An asteroid the width of Manhattan will be close enough to Earth tonight to be seen with binoculars. The good news is that the word "close" — like all things astronomical — is relative.

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is approaching Earth this week, offering a unique opportunity for astronomy enthusiasts. This rare and spectacular phenomenon will not occur again for several decades ...