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, ...

Some calculations say the explosion was 185 to 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that razed Hiroshima. Despite ...

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

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

Scientists have their eye on the sky as an asteroid making its way toward earth that could be the size of a football field has come into view.The asteroid dubbed "2024 YR4" was first ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...

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

The odds of a asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 has increased once again. The asteroid is as big as a football field, ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...