There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

Measuring approximately 40 to 100 metres wide, people have been nicknaming the asteroid ‘the city destroyer’ as it has the ...

NASA officials have discovered a new asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The near-Earth asteroid has been named 2024 YR4.

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost ...

Discovered in December 2024, YR4 currently ranks 3 out of 10 on the Torino Scale. Nasa said it is deploying the James Webb ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, which may hit Earth on December 2, 2032. The estimated impact probability is ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-23).

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...