The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in the near future has leapt from having a near-zero chance of occurring to having roughly a 3 percent chance. While that may not seem like a ...

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will ...

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

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"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been tracking the asteroid, which passes Earth every four years. The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have reduced from the previously ...