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

YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...

YR₄ has now been observed hundreds of times, but an impact still cannot be ruled out. The first images are also available.

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

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

It's an unwanted yuletide tiding for Christmas 2032 but stargazers are keeping a close watch on a giant asteroid measuring up ...

2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding ...

On Christmas Day 2024 researchers found a huge 196-foot space rock that has only 1 percent of a chance of hitting Earth.

A newly-discovered asteroid about 100 metres wide and on a potential collision course with Earth has activated international planetary defence teams ...

NASA is tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are refining its trajectory as it tops ESA's risk list.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first spotted on December 27 by the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey. It is ...