In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

For a time, it was the only object among more than 37,000 known large space rocks with any chance of hitting Earth anytime ...

The agency also shared that the new data suggested that the asteroid had a 1.7% chance of hitting the moon, but those slight odds of impact do not pose a risk to Earth. “When first discovered ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068.Should we worry about ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...