NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the ...

YR4, known as the 'city killer', has a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth during its close approach on December 22, 2032. NASA and ...

US space agency NASA says a detailed analysis shows that the likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 has dropped to 0 ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

Astronomers briefly raised the alert level for an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. They gave it a 3% ...

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

Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and professor at MIT. Binzel and his team have been following asteroid 2024 YR4 for months. It was first identified by NASA late last year and has been ...

YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for ...

Within this short window of study, scientists have given the asteroid a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth. That’s 1-in-32 ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...

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