YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Astronomers now say a newly discovered asteroid has a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA — the second time they've increased the odds recently. The near-earth object was ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years ... there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific Ocean ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

Those odds may seem pretty good (assuming you're hoping for a miss), but consider this: The International Asteroid ... Earth was safe from Apophis for at least another 100 years. If 2024 YR4 hit ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is of a scale to severely damage a city or other population center, said Moissl. But even taking into account the low risk of it hitting Earth, if it did hit Earth, it would be ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An asteroid impacted Earth today, but it didn’t do any damage. The asteroid in ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%. Astronomers now ...