Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

As more observations of the asteroid are made, the uncertainty region will continue to shrink and the impact probability may continue to rise. If we reach a point at which Earth is no longer ...

(CNN) - The odds of an asteroid hitting the Earth in seven years have increased once again. Astronomers said the threat posed by Asteroid 2024 YR4 now exceeds the threat posed by the widely known ...

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

The chances of an asteroid as large as the width of an NFL field striking Earth continue to tick up, according to NASA. The recently discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 2.6% probability of ...

is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency's risk assessment sits at 2.8%.