A NASA scientist has predicted where a huge asteroid - the size of Big Ben - could potentially hit Earth in seven years' time.

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

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

Now, that risk has almost doubled according to new data, with the 90-metre-wide asteroid having a 2.3% of colliding with ...

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The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost ...