YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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

NASA data released Tuesday said there is now a 3.1 percent chance a "city-destroying" asteroid could smash into Earth in 2023 ...

Nasa has identified an asteroid, 2024 YR4, with a 3.1 percent chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032. The asteroid ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth ... the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission, which successfully nudged an asteroid off its course using a ...

YR4 has a chance to crash into the Earth in 2032 when the "mansion-sized" space rock approaches our planet with enough power ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s rating of 3 on the Torino Scale is the second-highest an asteroid has ever reached after the Apophis briefly hit a rating of 4. The risk of Apophis impacting Earth during its ...

Though astronomers say Asteroid 2024 YR4 is highly unlikely to hit Earth, “the situation is significant ... agencies and to the United Nations. In 2022, NASA said it successfully collided ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4 ... “Tiny asteroids do hit the Earth all the time, disintegrating in the atmosphere as fireballs; fortunately small ones cause little damage ...