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

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

However, another update shared by NASA on Wednesday showed that 2024 YR4 has a 1.5% chance of colliding with Earth in December ... analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021.

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has 1.5% odds of hitting Earth. Among the more than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%.

On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... after a precise analysis of the asteroid's orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar ...

The size, trajectory, and speed of the asteroid immediately made it a cause of concern. Not only is it bigger than the Chelyabinsk object and potentially headed for Earth, it is also moving fast ...

As additional observations came in, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth went up ... observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when ...