A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, which may hit Earth on December 2, 2032. The estimated impact probability is ...

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Now, that risk has almost doubled according to new data, with the 90-metre-wide asteroid having a 2.3% of colliding with ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

The harmless flyby is one of several encounters this week. Three much smaller asteroids also will harmlessly buzz Earth on Friday, no more than tens of yards (meters) across, with another two on ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

For Kim Tait, those three words have long defined conditions for asteroids in our solar system ... which returned pieces of an asteroid to Earth 16 months ago, show not only that the material ...