Astronomers have opened up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to foreign scientists to determine how much damage the ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

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

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

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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

The odds of an asteroid colliding with earth in 2032 have gone up ... When it comes to newly uncovered asteroids, certain aspects of their orbit are essentially overestimated. Rankin explained: "We ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.

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 ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...