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

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

“Shortly after its discovery, automated asteroid warning systems determined that the object had a very small chance of potentially impacting Earth on 22 December 2032,” the European Space Agen ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot large space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, researchers say. Discovered last Christmas by Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, the ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Create Account The asteroid could come within 106,200 kilometres of earth in December 2032, according to a database in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space.com reported. Given the “orbital ...