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.

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet.

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

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

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

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

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...