The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

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 ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...

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

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

"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.

The beautiful planetary parade continues through the end of the month, with special guest Mercury joining the pack soon.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

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

For about six weeks now, NASA has been tracking a small asteroid called “2024 YR4.” It has a very low chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.