What could be a 100-metre wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, has very slim chance of hitting the Earth early in about eight years time. Here’s why astronomers are paying attention.

However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time. NASA has calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR24 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...

A NASA director has shared a very important message after it emerged a 'city-destroying' asteroid could hit Planet Earth within the next 10 years. The asteroid is called 2024 YR4 and it was found by ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of impacting Earth in 2032. While this sounds alarming, history shows that similar ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...