Astronomers are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a slim 1.2% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032.

The asteroid, named Asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1.3 per cent – or one in 83 – chance of striking Earth on December 22 in 2032.

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

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

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.