Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

A scientist who has written a book on how to defend our planet from an asteroid collision, has spoken out following news of ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The emergency measures come after scientists warned we may not ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which ...

China is assembling a 'planetary defence' team to monitor asteroids as fears grow over the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is ...

Dr Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist and author based in London, warns that 'we might not be able to stop 2024 YR4'.

NASA has called in the James Webb Space Telescope to track asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly identified space rock with a 2.1% ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The ...

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.