YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The recent discovery of the asteroid 2024 YR4 has drawn intriguing comparisons to the iconic film Armageddon, where a team of ...

NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

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 ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

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

The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.

Scientists have warned an asteroid the size of Buckingham Palace is increasingly likely to hit Earth in the next decade - but ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by an automated telescope in Chile in December 2024. In January, the asteroid had a ...