An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here's why the odds are a moving target, according to the ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the ...

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

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see ...

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might ...

Even though the asteroid is relatively small, a collision with Earth could still cause significant devastation – especially if it were to have a direct hit on a city. If it did collide with ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 ... the space rock’s trajectory, may reduce the odds of a direct hit to zero.

And if it hits home, it could cause an explosion equivalent to 500 atomic bombs, putting around 110 million lives at risk ...