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

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

2024 YR4 isn't the largest asteroid out there ... but the now 3.1% chance it will hit the planet is the highest risk level ever recorded. Despite the slim odds of an impact, astronomers are ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

As Euronews notes, those vast swathes contain some of the largest cities on Earth ... claiming the crown as the "'riskiest' asteroid ever detected." "As more observations of the asteroid are ...

But just two days ago, the odds had grown to 3.1 percent, setting a record for the highest probability for any asteroid of its size ever tracked ... that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact ...

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.

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - NASA projects that an asteroid has reached the highest chance of hitting earth, ever. “That percentage of a 3.1 percent ... “There may be essentially a big pressure wave that ...

But it could still be disastrous: the asteroid’s potential path crossed many of the world’s biggest cities ... the highest ever recorded for an object of its size. Over recent days, however ...

Nasa is also training the biggest telescope ever made on the asteroid in an attempt to better understand its trajectory, size and composition. “Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope will observe ...