NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

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A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

I'm ready to get in. Come on in. All right, let's try. Let's see if we can do it. A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday ...

Holy moly, sorry. I'm ready to get in. Come on in. All right, let's try. Let's see if we can do it. A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said ...

The target asteroid posed no threat to Earth, making it an ideal test subject. “I don’t see why it wouldn’t work” again, he said. The bigger question is whether major nations would fund ...