In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

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

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

2025 — A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between ...

The chances that an asteroid hits Earth in 2032 are now at their highest since the object was first discovered, according to ...

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

But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance of collision once associated with ... that 2024 YR4 has a 1.5% chance of colliding with Earth in December 2032, based on new observations now ...

If it misses Earth in 2032, NASA said it will pass near the Earth six more times between 2032 and 2074 ... At zero, there is zero chance of a collision. “A close encounter, meriting attention ...

At the end of last year, astronomers discovered the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could collide with the Earth in 2032 with a ...