YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

Scientists say they expect the asteroid's future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

Astronomers are working to reduce the uncertainty about the asteroid's orbit and rule out any impact risk, but it will fade ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based ... NASA's risk list of near-Earth objects shows. If the asteroid does hit the planet, although there is currently only a 1.2 percent chance ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

An astronomer says a large asteroid currently heading towards the Earth could destroy an entire country. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has just been detected using NASA'S ATLAS detection system. It is as wide ...

The 500metre wide rock could throw 400million tonnes of dust into the atmosphere, dropping the Earth's temperature 4C ...