An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here's why the odds are a moving target, according to the ...

Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.

This week's hype around a "city-killing" asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact ...

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1% ... will continue to rise” as more details become clear. Discovery images of 2024 YR4. (ATLAS) NASA ...

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(Image credit: buradaki via Getty Images) NASA scientists have just spotted a hunk of space rock that could smack into Earth in 2032. And while it's unlikely to wipe out humanity, it could take ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

While both JPL and MPC focus squarely on cataloging and tracking natural asteroids, comets and other ... in late February to fly by an asteroid and snap images to investigate its surface.