UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European ...

Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

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

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

"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.

Astronomers have raised the likelihood of “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth to 2.3 per cent, or roughly ...

The probability of a 2032 collision with the 50-meter asteroid has risen to 1.9%. However, ongoing calculations in the coming ...

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

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

An steroid up to 300ft wide now has a 2.2% chance of colliding into Earth. It could prompt a space mission to intercept it.

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first spotted on December 27 by the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey. It is ...

The scientific community is on alert after the discovery of the asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS ...