No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

An asteroid that could cause huge destruction is now being carefully watched. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has the potential to release ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

and how hard it's going to hit," Eric Christensen, the director of the near-Earth object-seeking Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, previously told Mashable. If the asteroid is rocky or rubble-like ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

“Astronomers say space rock may hit Earth in the not-too-distant future!” We usually see such warnings about one or two objects every year; the latest iteration concerns an asteroid, 2024 ...

This estimate also means there is almost a 99% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth. Plus, it’s “not that big” as far as asteroids go, Beatty said. For reference, the asteroid that wiped ...

is something that has been observed in Earth’s past, Drabon said. Next, the researchers plan to model the responses early humans may have had to asteroid strikes, simulating their life cycles ...