YR4 has just over a 2% chance of hitting Earth, according to NASA, but experts say there's no need to panic yet.

A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years.

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

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