The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers says that instead of stressing about the near miss, we can be excited by ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an ...

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

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

The current trajectory of 2024 YR4 is almost a straight line away from ... impact probability of 1% or greater. Even if this asteroid hits Earth, it could burn up in the atmosphere and become ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon however, may not be in the clear.

By then most scientists expect the risk to have almost entirely gone, as their calculations of its trajectory become more precise. We do have options beyond "taking a hit", as Dr Kumamoto puts it.

When would the asteroid hit Earth? This asteroid passes us by every four years. Every time we go four times around the sun, it has almost precisely completed one turn. It has just recently had a ...