Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been ... after the notorious Apophis briefly hit a rating of 4 many when it was first discovered. The risk of Apophis impacting Earth during its 2029 flyby even rose as ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was ...

That’s why this one now tops ESA’s asteroid risk list. The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon ...

In the unlikely scenario that the large asteroid does hit Earth, such an event won't necessarily spell doom. Over 70 percent of the planet is covered in ocean, meaning there's a good chance of a ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a ...