NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city-killing’ asteroid after the odds of it smashing into Earth continue to rise. Astronomers are keeping a close eye on Asteroid 2024 YR4, which ...

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December 2032 as it approaches ...

VIDEO: Scientists are tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team to join the US and Europe in bracing for an evermore likely “city-killer” ...

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

The ‘city killer’ asteroid (possibly) heading our way might spare us and slam into the Moon instead, scientists said. The space rock known as 2024 YR4 has a 2.1% chance of hitting Earth based on ...

A Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers study asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of striking Earth ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

However, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3 percent chance of colliding with Earth in seven years' time, and its estimated width of ...

The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which knocked the 580-foot-wide asteroid Dimorphos off course in 2022.

The constant danger to our planet is the impact of meteorites on its surface. Every day these space rocks pass through our ...