That big scary asteroid that had some people worried ... NASA put the final nail in the doomsday coffin: a near-impossible 0.004% chance of impact. And while Earth is out of harm’s way, the ...

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island: Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from about 1.3 per cent in ...

Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from an unprecedented 3.1 per cent to less than 1 per cent.

At that point, he says, the twin planets could act as mutually protective guardians, ready to come to the other orb’s defense if it is threatened by a Doomsday event like the asteroid strike ...

So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid 2024 YR4’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from inside the Earth’s orbit to nearly the distance of ...

The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old. Lucy will fly past the three ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

For centuries, humankind has been obsessed with doomsday scenarios ... The latest iteration is an asteroid, coined 2024 YR4, that scientists said has a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

If a massive asteroid hit Earth ... Of course, galaxies are mostly just empty space – so it's not a definite doomsday. But don't worry, that's four billion years away anyway.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...