A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

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

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

YR4 has just over a 2% chance of hitting Earth, according to NASA, but experts say there's no need to panic yet.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...