Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary ... to fluctuate — and quite possibly fall to zero. “You don’t have to be worried ...