The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

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

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

“There’s a 98.4 percent chance, as of today, that it will go to zero,” Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Friday ...

The system includes four telescopes around the world that hunt near-Earth objects, and its telescope in Chile was the one to make the find. It wasn't until a few days later that the object caught ...