The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...

The latest city-killer asteroid updates suggest Asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss Earth entirely, leading astronomers to breathe a ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

"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 (ESA) has reduced the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 to 0.001 per cent, ...

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

YR4: NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032, potentially causing ...

NASA announced the NEO Surveyor mission, which aims to detect and track asteroids that could pose a catastrophic threat to our planet.

Insurance companies globally will be monitoring the risks associated with a “city-killing” asteroid that could collide with ...