NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

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.

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

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a one per cent chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The European Space Agency is closely monitoring the minor planet. Although the asteroid's composition is not yet ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s rating of 3 on the Torino Scale is the second-highest an asteroid has ever reached after the notorious Apophis briefly hit a rating of 4 many when it was first discovered. The risk ...

The odds of a massive asteroid now hurtling through space hitting Earth are small, but they went up this week, media reported Thursday. The so-called 2024 YR asteroid, about the size of a football ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly increased risk of affecting Earth ... has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, as scientists currently estimate those chances are 2.3%, according to ...

It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth. The good news, according to NASA, is that for now, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.