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 December last year, NASA spied an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, some tens of thousands of miles away in orbit which, although ...

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

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

NASA's risk list of near-Earth objects shows. If the asteroid does hit the planet, although there is currently only a 1.2 percent chance of that happening, it is predicted that the impact will ...

The threat of Asteroid ... Earth object was discovered in December and calculations of its orbit showed something concerning: there was a remote possibility that it was going to hit our planet.

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth ... than 1% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22 ...

Astronomers ruled out any chance of an impact with Earth in 2028, but there's a small chance the asteroid might hit our planet on December 22, 2032. How small? The probability has fluctuated in ...

AN asteroid ... hitting Earth increased. The discovery sparked plans that a nuclear weapon could be sent into space to deflect the space rock measuring 330ft by 130ft which could smash into the ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide ... in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit the planet. Given the small but not impossible chance of Bennu’s ...