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 ...

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 ...

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.

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