YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

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

The world’s top astronomers are closely watching an asteroid they say has a 2.3% chance of hitting earth in 2032 - up from ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth.

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid that may hit Earth in 2032. The space agency is using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

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