An asteroid named 2024 YR4 has been discovered with a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth by 2032. In this video, we break down the ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Andrews: This isn’t an ideal situation. And humanity has never tried to stop an asteroid impact for real. I imagine that if 2024 YR4 does become an agreed-upon emergency, the DART team (JHUAPL ...

The asteroid, which has been dubbed YR4 ... it’s not time to push the panic button quite yet, but this is a real possibility that NASA scientists will continue to monitor.

YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of ...

It was only a drill. Had it been a real emergency, you would have been instructed to kiss the world – or a large chunk of it – goodbye. Watching this five-day asteroid war game from the wings ...