The odds of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 have gone from a little more than 3% to now 0.0004%. Brandon Johnson is a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in diameter. Most pose no risk. But NASA estimates that only about 43% of nearby ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of ...

NASA has confirmed asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses any risk to Earth, downgrading it to Torino Scale Level Zero.

Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further ...

Less than two months after asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the European Space Agency’s risk list of near-Earth objects, ...

SpaceX successfully launched a new round of Starlink satellites into orbit on Wednesday night after scrubbing the flights.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...