Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New ...

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

The world’s top astronomers are closely watching an asteroid they say has a 2.3% chance of hitting earth in 2032 - up from just 1% last month. Tom explains what they’re looking for and what scientists ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Scientists are using the James Webb Telescope to study Asteroid 2024 YR4 which has a chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be helping to track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

Current data shows 2024 YR4 is the only known large asteroid with an impact probability above 1%. NASA reminds people that ...