Scientists have ruled out any significant threat from asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming it will safely pass Earth in 2032.

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, ...

The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...

University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are helping track an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, including the Canada-France-HawaiʻiTelescope, the ...

YR4: After estimating an initial 3.1 per cent impact probability, Nasa's latest calculations revealed that the asteroid 2024 YR4 has near-zero chances of hitting Earth in 2032 ...

Scientists are warning that if heat-trapping pollution continues to rise, sea levels will very likely climb half a meter to ...

Panic over: the ‘city killer’ asteroid at risk of slamming into Earth like a grenade is now overwhelmingly likely to pass on ...

NASA has given a major update on the ’city-killing’ asteroid which has been hurtling towards Earth – and it finally makes for ...

What are the odds the asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth? NASA’s early detection programme will probably bring more false ...

A continent is drifting towards Asia at a surprising speed and the inevitable collision will impact the natural world as we ...