NASA has good news about asteroid 2024 YR4. New observations taken overnight on February 19-20 have lowered the chance that ...

NASA said Wednesday that new data collected overnight cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. The ...

YR4 continues to keep us on our toes as astronomers work to determine its potential threat to our planet, but the latest ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 ...

In December last year, NASA spied an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, some tens of thousands of miles away in orbit which, although ...

The threat posed by the space rock, estimated to be between 40 and 90 metres in diameter, is the highest ever recorded for an ...

The inventor of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale has explained how scientists are working to ‘pin down’ the position of ...

The space rock, known as asteroid 2024 YR4, reached its highest ever impact probability of 3.1 per cent – or a one-in-32 ...

Astronomers say the 2024 YR4 asteroid still has a 97% chance of missing Earth in 2032, but the now 3.1% chance it will hit ...

NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...

Those worrying about the 2 percent likelihood of 2024 YR4 — a near-Earth asteroid discovered in December 2024 — colliding ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the ...