At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

Scientists have ruled out any significant threat from asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming it will safely pass Earth in 2032.

Some astronomers have described it as a 'city killer' and say it could detonate with hundreds of times the force of the ...

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, ...

There’s still a 1.7 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA.

The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...

University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are helping track an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, including the Canada-France-HawaiʻiTelescope, the ...

YR4: After estimating an initial 3.1 per cent impact probability, Nasa's latest calculations revealed that the asteroid 2024 YR4 has near-zero chances of hitting Earth in 2032 ...

Scientists are warning that if heat-trapping pollution continues to rise, sea levels will very likely climb half a meter to ...

Panic over: the ‘city killer’ asteroid at risk of slamming into Earth like a grenade is now overwhelmingly likely to pass on ...