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

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

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

Still the chances of it striking Earth are minimal and it would not cause a mass extinction as happened 66m years ago when an asteroid led ... strike at slightly more than 1%.

Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% probability of slamming into Earth in 2032. And yes, that makes it the only one of more-than 37,000 known large space ... it to be a mass extinction ...

creating a massive crater and decimating human communities in the impact zone. Asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of NASA's automated Sentry risk list that ranks known Near Earth Objects (NEOs ...

Currently, there are no other known large asteroids that have more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth, according to NASA. Two international asteroid response groups endorsed by the United Nations ...

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, has been misidentified as an asteroid on more than one ... to be a near-Earth asteroid that would approach within just under ...

A gigantic asteroid, said to be bigger than a football field, is rapidly hurtling towards the Earth and has a higher than average possibility of colliding with our planet in the year 2032.