The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

The asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 has the highest Earth collision probability ever recorded on the European Space Agency's scale, ...

SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect an asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...

Astronomers have opened up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to foreign scientists to determine how much damage the ...

Space agencies are closely monitoring a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4 ... it is 99% likely that the Earth will ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

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

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The ...

The chances that a massive 60 to 100 metre (196 to 330ft) wide asteroid could hit Earth in 2032 have doubled, researchers say ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...