An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

The estimated flight path of an asteroid the size of Big Ben’s tower will see it pass over some of the world’s most populous ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

The chance that a city-killer asteroid will impact Earth in 2032 is steadily rising. Here's what you need to know.

The YR4 spans 100 meters and its impact would be comparable to eight million tons of dynamite.

The American NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are actively monitoring the movement of the asteroid YR4, which has ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit ...

If it hits, the explosion would be 500 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and have a blast radius of ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

NASA and the European Space Agency have issued updates on what is considered to be the most dangerous asteroid astronomers ...