Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

A handsome fictional mathematician once said that life, uh, finds a way – and he’s not wrong. Earth is teeming with organisms ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

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

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

YR4 continues to keep us on our toes as astronomers work to determine its potential threat to our planet, but the latest ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

The technique is pretty straightforward and potentially very cheap, but will need to be scaled up significantly to make a difference.

The risk of a huge asteroid hitting earth has dropped after NASA reported its highest-ever impact probability for an object ...