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

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 ...

NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...

Astronomers are keeping a close watch on asteroid 2024 YR4. This asteroid has a small probability of impacting the Earth in ...

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

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

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...

The most likely scenario is that, by that time, you will be able to say, look, we can prove it's not going to hit Earth, but there is a chance that we cannot eliminate it completely. And that will ...

According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) and the European Space Agency (ESA) the likelihood of a collision was originally just 1.2%, per a calculation made in late January.

The odds of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting the Earth have increased from 1 percent to 2.3 percent, but experts say this was expected and are not worried about it. The asteroid was first detected on ...

In the ‘extremely low’ chance the asteroid hits earth, it could strike an area extending from the eastern Pacific Ocean to South Asia, possibly even destroying a city.