There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight ...

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

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

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

The space rock now has a one-in-360 chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, down from its peak of a one-in-32 chance. While it's looking likely that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely fly by Earth, ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.

For several years, astronomers have been aware of a much-ballyhooed “city-killer” asteroid named YR4 2024, which is hurtling ...