The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers spotted and ...

YR4, the asteroid is estimated to be between 40 m and 100 m wide and is projected to come close to Earth in December 2032.

“Most likely this one will pass by harmlessly,” Colin Snodgrass, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “It just deserves a little more ...

Now, astronomers have bumped up that number, putting the space rock’s odds of colliding with our planet at 2.3 percent. While the identification has triggered international planetary defense ...