YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4, with a current 2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. The potential impact zone ...

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Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

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 ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

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

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.