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 ...

Recent observations have significantly lowered the impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 with Earth. Initially estimated with a 3% chance, new data from the European Southern Observatory shows the ...

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

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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 ...

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.

Last week, an asteroid had a 3% probability of hitting us in 2032. Now NASA says it doesn't have one chance in 50,000. What ...

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

NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a “significant threat” to Earth in 2032 or beyond. ...