A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

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

YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

"NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated proof-of-concept for kinetic impactor technologies in ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, a near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 ...

In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System ... the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life on Earth, but it would be devastating.

Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which was spotted last month and is currently heading away from Earth.

Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.