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

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

NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in ...

As space scientists around the world scramble to learn more about an asteroid classified as a "city destroyer" that could impact the Earth in around eight years, two Australians are quietly playing a ...

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

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might ...

Nasa upgrades chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in disaster event - There is now a 1-in-38 chance that the space rock will hit us in 2032 – with potentially disastrous consequences ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

"It wouldn't affect the global climate, but it would certainly be a disaster of every proportion. So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." In order to gain a greater understanding of the asteroid ...

who might have in mind such Hollywood asteroid disaster movies as Armageddon and Deep Impact. “Asteroid impacts are a genuine concern. We know that they can have quite destructive effects.

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...