Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

Days after it was confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of colliding with Earth, American space agency, Nasa ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

YR has a slightly increased chance of hitting Earth in 2032, with scientists raising the probability from 1.3% to 2.3%. This ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

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

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

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According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

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

So far, they've managed to reveal things like the fact that asteroid Bennu — a space rock representative of the early solar system — appears to hold compounds containing water and carbon.