The risk of the asteroid hitting Earth has fallen from 3 per cent to 0.002 per cent in a matter of days, but if the chance ...

Those with an inclination toward doomsday and/or numbers have become fascinated/terrified by news in recent weeks that a ...

Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded … but the Moon may still ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of ...

Apophis initially had a small chance to hit Earth on Sept. 13, 2024, but did not. The International Asteroid Warning Network put out a list of possible impact locations, which ranges from ...

Apophis initially had a small chance to hit Earth on Sept. 13, 2024, but did not. While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from ...

Scientists have nearly ruled out any threat from Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously believed to have a 3.1 per cent ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

An asteroid that hit the Yucatan Peninsula in ... While the odds of a giant asteroid – Asteroid 2024 YR4 – hitting Earth in 2032 were hovering at around 3 per cent last week, they have now ...

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...