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Buddy Holly may have looked cute, but behind those iconic glasses was a fiery rebel who played by his own rules—until that ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth.

Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way ... the measure could be taken against a space rock the size of a football pitch which is being ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means the space rock has a nearly 99% chance ...

But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...