"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.

YR4 will hit Earth are likely to decrease. Predicting exactly where an asteroid is likely to end up is pretty difficult. In his interview with Space.com, Ran ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave the asteroid a 1.3 per cent chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 feet in width, ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.