"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Since its discovery, the asteroid's probability of an impact with our planet has gone all over the place. At one point, the ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

What happens when NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid? Scientists thought they knew, but the results of the DART ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

The asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city, was initially ...

NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

NASA classifies the risk of an asteroid impact using the Torino Impact Hazard Scale. Using this scale, asteroids are ranked ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.

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, as ...

There has been a lot of talk about the collision options of asteroid 2024 YR4 and with the growing possibility of it ...