ATLANTA — The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled, now sitting at 2.3 percent. The headlines alone can make one nervous. So, is it something to be concerned about?

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

Situation is significant enough to warrant global planetary defence community's attention. Astronomers plan to use James Webb ...

The odds of a strike will almost certainly continue to go up and down as the asteroid’s path around the sun is better understood.

That prompted Kimmel to quip, “Does he have any self-awareness at all? The character of Biff in Back to the Future is based on him and that was 30 years before he became president.” Back to the Future ...

YR4 were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, capable of devastating an area the size of Washington, D.C.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Watch as a city-killer asteroid set to possibly crash into Earth in 2032 zooms away from Earth in new telescope footage.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

The government agency have issued a date of impact.The world’s top astronomers are putting their great minds together to figure ...

China is putting together a planetary defence team after scientists spotted a huge asteroid heading towards the Earth. NASA ...