Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Webb Space Telescope will observe this near-Earth asteroid in March before the object ...

Astronomers are using the James Webb telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

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Scientists have spotted an asteroid which they estimate has a more than 2 per cent risk of hitting Earth in eight years time ...