Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

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

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

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

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

In 2021, scientists revised their estimates of the risk posed by the cruise liner-sized space rock after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit. Earth gets hit by an asteroid of this size ...