Recent reports of a potential asteroid impact have sparked widespread concern on Chinese social media, with many voicing safety worries. Amid the discussions, public attention has turned to China's ...

The risk assessment of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has increased from a chance of 1.2% impact over the last week ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

The threat comes as new observations suggest the asteroid’s chance of collision has risen to 1-in-43, up from about 1% in ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to a NASA update on Feb. 7. This probability of impact has increased since Jan. 29 when NASA ...

While NASA says the chances of a collision with Earth are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

First spotted in December 2024, YR4 is estimated to be between 130 and 330 feet in size, roughly equivalent to a 40-story ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...