The James Webb Space Telescope will begin detailed observations next month to refine trajectory estimates. While 2024 YR4 is classified as a "city-killer," it is not a global threat like the asteroid ...

It could cause mass destruction if it lands in a populated area - hundreds of times worse than the Hiroshima bomb ...

Asteroids were responsible for extinction events hundreds of millions of years ago on Earth, providing no shortage of ...

NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032, potentially causing severe local damage. Estimated at ...

NASA has upgraded the risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032, although it is still very unlikely to happen ...

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1% chance of striking the Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released on ...

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

The U.S. space agency said the probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 has grown to 3.1%, or a 1-in-32 chance. Earlier in January, NASA had put the chance of the asteroid impacting ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city now has an increased chance of hitting Earth in seven years, NASA reported on Tuesday. NASA first discovered the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, named 2024 ...