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

A ‘city-destroying’ asteroid is currently on a path towards Earth and could hit as soon as 2032. Now experts have modelled ...

Even though the odds of crashing into Earth are quite low, if it does bang into the planet, a catastrophe would be unleashed.

The space rock now has a one-in-360 chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, down from its peak of a one-in-32 chance. While it's looking likely that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely fly by Earth, ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Some calculations say the explosion was 185 to 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that razed Hiroshima. Despite ...

YR4, dubbed 'city killer', poses a potential threat to Earth in 2032. While the impact probability is low (1.5%), its ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

The inventor of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale has explained how scientists are working to ‘pin down’ the position of ...

The "Zero Day" star and "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert let a haunting silence hang in the air for several seconds. The ...

NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where they stand ...