The unassuming asteroid was first spotted in December by scientists at the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.

NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.