Scientists around the world are closely watching an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, which could get uncomfortably close to the earth in 2032. We find out more about the space rock and the efforts being made ...

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For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter ...

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...

Nostradamus's predictions for 2025 include a possible asteroid encounter with Earth, a resurgence of an old plague in England ...

Earth is no longer on a collision course with asteroid 2024 YR4, but it could potentially collide with the Moon.

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...