Scientists are projecting a small but significant chance that an asteroid could strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Asteroids ...

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YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% 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.

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It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...

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An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...