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.

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 ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

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