Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

Chance of Earth being hit by asteroid in 2032 double - Rock will still almost certainly pass by without incident ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

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

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

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

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

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

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...