Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to continue shifting with further observations ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will ...

It sounds like a sci-fi movie but scientists say the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth is a real life possibility. The date of potential doom is December 22, 2032, when a giant rock the ...

On Feb. 18, the asteroid’s impact probability was increased to 3.1%, the highest ever recorded for an object of this size. The following day, it was reduced to 1.5%, according to NASA.

astronomers maintain that studying them could help the world's space agencies in mounting a planetary defense if the day ever comes that an asteroid does pose a threat. As of October ...