Focusing on an area where a large lake was once situated during the Pleistocene, archaeologists found a wealth of material ...

The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements ...

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

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ... the last known large asteroid to hit our world. Planet killer asteroids are ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 ... “Tiny asteroids do hit the Earth all the time, disintegrating in the atmosphere as fireballs; fortunately small ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is of a scale to severely damage a city or other population center, said Moissl. But even taking into account the low risk of it hitting Earth, if it did hit Earth, it would be ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized ... we can prove it's not going to hit Earth, but there is a chance that we cannot eliminate it completely. And that will be the more interesting ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

NASA officials have discovered a new asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The near-Earth asteroid has been named 2024 YR4 and is estimated to be 40 to 90 meters wide.