New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Elon Musk has made unfounded claims that two NASA astronauts were left on the space station for "political reasons" after ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

The cloud cover isn't what it used to be, and scientists say it is helping fuel Earth's hottest temperatures on record.

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...