Credit: ATLAS/NASA/Cover Images This footage shows the asteroid that could cause havoc by striking the Earth in 2032.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

FOX 13's Evan Axelbank reports that an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth was given a 3% chance of ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

The Gemini South telescope recently captured an image of an asteroid with a 1 in 48 chance of Earth impact by 2032.

There is now a roughly 1 in 32 chance of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032, following an upgraded by NASA. According to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object ...

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In December last year, NASA spied an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, some tens of thousands of miles away in orbit which, although ...