A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...

Spotting an asteroid that's new to science The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

2024 YR4, which is reckoned to be between 100 and 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide, was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, an asteroid impact early ...

The asteroid, which is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet wide, was first detected on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station in ...

Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid roughly the size of Big Ben will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of ...

The asteroid was first observed on 27 December 2024 at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. ESA has captured a timelapse of the asteroid's ...

Astronomers are keeping a close watch on a newly discovered near‐Earth asteroid that, while highly unlikely to hit Earth, remains under intense international scrutiny.