The asteroid, 60 meters wide and about the same size as the Statue of Liberty or Big Ben, now has a 2.3% chance of colliding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been allocated emergency observation time to study asteroid 2024 YR4, which has been classified as potentially hazardous. The space rock was identified in ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor has passed its critical design review, clearing the way for construction and testing. This infrared ...

The threat comes as new observations suggest the asteroid’s chance of collision has risen to 1-in-43, up from about 1% in ...

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth.

Astronomers say the asteroid, estimated at 40-90 m (131-295 ft.) in diameter, could impact Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. “It is ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting Earth have increased, so China is putting together a 'planetary defence team'.

A scientist has warned that we don't have much time if the asteroid 2024 YR4 is confirmed to strike Earth in 2032. The asteroid, which has nearly 2% chance of hitting our planet, has put space ...