The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Discovered in December 2024 by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, 2024 YR4 is currently at the top of the agency's asteroid watch list. The space rock, roughly 180 feet (55 metres) ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

Scientists will be able to use the James Webb Space Telescope to help them build a better understanding of Asteroid 2024 YR4.

Astronomers have been given access to the James Webb Space Telescope to assess the threat posed by asteroid 2024 YR4, which ...

An asteroid that could cause huge destruction is now being carefully watched. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has the potential to release ...

By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...

As the chances of the 'city-killing' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth increase, the world's space agencies have made a rare emergency decision.

A Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

China has formed a planetary defense team to monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.2% impact probability. Global space ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

NASA is urgently studying asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 1-in-43 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Using the James Webb Telescope ...