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Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

The chance that a city-killer asteroid will impact Earth in 2032 is steadily rising. Here's what you need to know.

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

YR4 poses a potential threat to Earth with a 1.5% impact chance in December 2032. Major cities like Mumbai, Bogotá, and Lagos ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

YR4 asteroid has a small chance of it hitting Earth in 2032 and University of Oxford's Professor Stephen Smartt has weighed ...

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...