In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

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

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it has an almost 99% chance of safely ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... However, past discrepancies between predictions of the comet 67P, as seen by ...

The chances that an asteroid hits Earth in 2032 are now at their highest since the object was first discovered, according to ...

At the end of last year, astronomers discovered the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could collide with the Earth in 2032 with a ...

The process has begun to unfold since the asteroid was first spotted late last year on a potential collision course with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Initially, the odds of impact fluctuated around 1%, but ...