Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth and causing damage in 2032 has continued to increase since the asteroid was ...

A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

NASA has downgraded the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 0.28 per cent, way lower than the 1.5 per cent it had predicted only days ago, and certainly far more heartening than the ...

Insurance companies globally will be monitoring the risks associated with a “city-killing” asteroid that could collide with ...

It is clear that we must always keep a special watch on everything that happens outside our planetary borders. This is ...

Media reports suggest that NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) remains committed to keeping a close watch on asteroid 2024 YR4. Even w ...

An asteroid capable of levelling a city now has a 3.1% chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released on Tuesday (Feb 18). However, despite the increased odds, which were around 2% ...

NASA astronomers say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 - but much ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly downgrades the asteroid's threat level and makes a moon strike more likely.