The asteroid, named Asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1.3 per cent – or one in 83 – chance of striking Earth on December 22 in 2032.

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

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It's an unwanted yuletide tiding for Christmas 2032 but stargazers are keeping a close watch on a giant asteroid measuring up ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

What could be a 100-metre wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, has very slim chance of hitting the Earth early in about eight years time.

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

On December 22, 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the Earth.

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...