A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, but by Thursday, that chance had risen to 2.3 percent. On Wednesday, NASA ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.

The chances of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032 have almost doubled after new telescope scans, an expert told Yahoo News. The European Space Agency (ESA) has ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty ... a 2.7% chance of colliding with Earth in 2029, 2036, or 2068. In 2021, NASA ruled out these collision risks after refining its trajectory ...

That's why this one now tops the ESA's asteroid risk list.The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It's much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.The good news ...

According to the latest calculations from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a 1.6 percent chance the asteroid will strike Earth on December 22, 2032. If it does hit, possible impact sites ...