"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight ...

University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

For several years, astronomers have been aware of a much-ballyhooed “city-killer” asteroid named YR4 2024, which is hurtling ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...

NASA says that Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72 percent chance of missing Earth when it passes by us in 2032.

YR4 asteroid has a small chance of it hitting Earth in 2032 and University of Oxford's Professor Stephen Smartt has weighed ...

The space rock now has a one-in-360 chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, down from its peak of a one-in-32 chance. While it's looking likely that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely fly by Earth, ...

There is currently a 0.28% chance that 2024 YR4 will strike Earth on December 22, 2032 – a drop from 1.5% yesterday – ...