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

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

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Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032.

There is a chance that an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, and scientists are recording observations of the asteroid from ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

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.

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