NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially flagged as a potential threat, poses no significant danger to ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

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

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...

Initially, the odds of a collision in 2032 were as high as 3 percent, making it a top concern on global asteroid-risk lists.

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...

Nasa has it down to 0.0017 per cent – meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...

The risk of the asteroid hitting Earth fell from 3 per cent to 0.002 per cent within days, but if the chances can shift so ...

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.