NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. That's down from the estimated 3.1% chance the agency said on Tuesday in a record high for an ...

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. Read the latest.

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4.

NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now to 1 in 360. NASA announced the first reduced impact risk on its X feed at around 5:00 p.m ...

Designated as near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, both NASA observers and members of the worldwide planetary defense community felt at first that the object, said to be 174-220 feet in size, might hit ...

As additional observations came in, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth went up. Last week, the impact probability stood at 2.3%, according to NASA. The asteroid will continue to be ...

NASA tracks five near-Earth asteroids flying close to our planet this week. Despite their size, none pose a threat for at ...

Astronomers are watching 2024 YR4 closely before it disappears from view. Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

Of these ‘six invisible threats’, three named 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 ‘have a severe risk of collision’ as their orbits ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently ... happen maybe once every 100 million years." The asteroid 2024 YR4, which was discovered in December 2024, has been making headlines around the ...

If we wanted to perform a repeat of NASA's DART mission, which successfully deflected a small asteroid, we could test that with 2024 YR4. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...