The odds that “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting ... data from the space agency’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. This marks a concerning ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! — 'That's impact probability zero folks!' Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings ...

There’s still a 1.7 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA.

Still, among the more-than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon. Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than a 1% ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and the European Space Agency first announced its existence last month. Protocols require the ...

A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors - celestial guardians perpetually circling the Earth - could ... If an American space-based interceptor fails to hit an SS-18 during its ...

hitting a “historic” threshold. NASA recently raised the probability of deep impact to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, according to the latest data from the space agency’s Center for Near Earth Object ...