The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as potentially hazardous.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will come close to Earth in late 2032, but we won't have to make any doomsday preparations. It's expected to pass safely by. The asteroid was first reported by the Minor Planet ...

Asteroids come close to striking the Earth frequently ... she said. “The probability of an asteroid hitting Earth is low, but ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Astronomers now say a newly discovered asteroid has a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA — the second time they've increased the odds recently. The near-earth object was ...

unless it happens near a coastline triggering a tsunami. Aside from the nearly 0% chance the asteroid will miss Earth, the good news, experts stress, is that we have plenty of time to prepare if ...