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

Over the last few weeks, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has become a staple in science news columns. This space rock has a fluctuating but small chance to hit our planet around 12 pm UTC on December 22 ...

Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If the giant rock is on a collision course with our planet, it could rip through the ...

The rating meant that the asteroid merited astronomers’ attention ... If we reach a point at which Earth is no longer inside this region, the impact probability will quickly drop to 0.” ...

The 1998 science-fiction movie Armageddon, about a giant asteroid headed to Earth, imagined sending a crew of oil drillers to plant a nuclear bomb inside the asteroid, suggesting it’s easier to ...

Asteroid 2022 OB5 is small ... Not everyone is convinced that so much valuable metal will be found inside M-type asteroids. “There’s not enough P.G.M.s in asteroids to justify that as a ...

It sounds like a sci-fi movie but scientists say the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth is a real life possibility. The date of potential doom is December 22, 2032, when a giant rock the ...

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