Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system captured the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over the course of one hour on ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Scientists have upgraded the threat level of an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that doesn't mean we need to start panicking just yet. The scale ranges ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Good news for all earthlings, our home planet is likely in the clear after an asteroid was recently identified as a possible threat of hitting Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated to ...

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...