Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

The chances that an asteroid hits Earth in 2032 are now at their highest since the object was first discovered, according to NASA.

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near-Earth asteroid ... YR4 would hit the Moon's surface at full speed since it doesn't have an atmosphere, exploding with ...

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had ... that the probability that 2024 YR4 would hit the Earth would probably go up and then at some ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Since December, Moskovitz had the Lowell Discovery Telescope trained on the 2024 YR4 asteroid. Scientists at one point projected it had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. 2024 YR4 is now ...

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 into the Moon has risen to 1-in-55, and is expected to keep going up.

Updated orbit predictions show the chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in seven years has dropped to practically zero, according to NASA. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and ...

After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is ... it had a greater than 1% chance of hitting us in seven years.