After months of increasing odds, the space agency has now revealed that the asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a negligible chance of hitting ... to a big shift of the asteroid's path away from Earth.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

THE MOON could save Earth by blocking a devastating asteroid which is big enough ... a chilling simulation showed what would happen if the city-killing asteroid did hit Earth.

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something out of a sci-fi movie. The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben ... Odds of the rock hitting the Earth stand at 1-in-37,000, but the Moon may not be so lucky. The chance of the asteroid smashing ...

UPDATE Feb. 24, 2025: With new observations over the weekend, the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have ... 2024 2024 YR4 or any other asteroid — the other big factor would be timing.

Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring, and the odds of the newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth just went up. However ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero ...

At the higher end, that suggests the asteroid is around the same size as New York's Statue of Liberty, or London's Big Ben ... If 2024 YR4 really does hit Earth in 2032, it should fall somewhere ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, could hit Earth in ... alongside a video simulation of the rock ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...