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

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

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.

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

The rating meant that the asteroid merited astronomers ... Part of the uncertainty lies within understanding 2024 YR4’s orbit and how close it will come to Earth in the future, he said.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Last week, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... What we’re doing now is not enough.” Asteroids ...

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