Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

There's a slim chance a sizeable asteroid could collide with our planet in 2032, and it's fair to wonder why the powers that ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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

Destruction from the largest of these objects, such as the asteroid that likely caused the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago, could wipe out humans. Each night, teams of ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago ... crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos about 7 million miles away from Earth ...

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...