It was given the highest ever risk level, but there's some good news.

Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032 ... damage could occur as far as 50km from the impact site, based ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible ... to impact our planet for the next century," the agency added ...

Scientists have set the potential impact date for the 2024 YR4 asteroid as December 22, 2032. Where could it hit? Ultimately, it is too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.

NASA had it down to 0.0027 percent — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century. But there’s still a 1.7 percent chance that ...

NASA had it down to 0.0027% — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century. Paul Chodas, who heads NASA’s Center for Near Earth ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

Panic over: the ‘city killer’ asteroid at risk of slamming into Earth like a grenade is now ... caused ‘severe blast damage’ as far as 50 km (31 miles) from the impact site.