According to scientists, the asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day and passed near around 500,000 miles.

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what ...

NASA's successful experiment in knocking an asteroid off course could come in handy in 2032. Astronomers say an asteroid ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

Spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on December 27, 2024, the asteroid is estimated to be ...

Space agency officials have announced a newly-discovered asteroid has a slight chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth.

The nearly 200-foot space rock has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever,’ says ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a more than 1% chance of smacking into Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said. Scientists put the odds of a strike at the highest of any known asteroid.

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...