"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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

The rating meant that the asteroid merited astronomers’ attention ... If we reach a point at which Earth is no longer inside this region, the impact probability will quickly drop to 0.” ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

Over the last few weeks, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has become a staple in science news columns. This space rock has a fluctuating but small chance to hit our planet around 12 pm UTC on December 22 ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

It sounds like a sci-fi movie but scientists say the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth is a real life possibility. The date of potential doom is December 22, 2032, when a giant rock the ...

Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If the giant rock is on a collision course with our planet, it could rip through the ...