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

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

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

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

China has initiated the formation of a planetary defence team to address the potential danger posed by near-Earth asteroids.

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

A UK volcanologist, Dr Robin George Andrews, has raised concerns about the looming threat of asteroid 2024 YR4, warning that ...

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind ...

If YR4 still poses a threat as we approach 2032, we could redirect the asteroid safely away from Earth. NASA demonstrated this capability in 2022, during the space agency’s Double Asteroid ...