Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

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An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

NASA warns asteroid YR4 has a 1 in 32 chance of impact by 2032. At 177 feet wide, it could flatten a city with an 8-megaton blast. JWST will refine its trajectory soon.

NASA has raised red flags over growing asteroid threats that could potentially damage the Earth.To one’s surprise, astronomers are unaware of the location of thousands ...

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.