NASA has been tracking the 100-metre-wide asteroid, called 2024 YR4, which was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on ...

The asteroid — which was initially discovered in December 2024 — is large enough to destroy a whole city, according to ...

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into what is ...

An asteroid which has a one in 32 chance of hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a city has been caught on camera.

An AI platform predicted that the likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 has risen to an all-time high.

The director of the Senegalese Space Study Agency has just led the launch of the first Senegalese nanosatellite into space ...

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

An asteroid being tracked by NASA made national headlines earlier this week when the space agency predicted the object had a ...

As scientists predict an asteroid has a very small chance of striking Earth in 2032, China is forming a planetary defense force that could defend against asteroid strikes. NBC News' Janis Mackey ...

On december 27th, 2024, the asteroid terrestrial-impact last alert system (atlas) Detected a new asteroid, which was designated 2024 y-r-4.As more observations ...

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...