"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 ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

NASA and other space agencies are attempting to come up with a way to destroy a massive asteroid unlikely to strike Earth.

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

Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

YR4 hit Earth? FOX 9 All Day chats with Michael Pravica, an astrophysicist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, about the ...