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

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

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

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

Scientists will be able to get another look at the asteroid then, Harwood said, and determine its orbit and trajectory. Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth ...

Scientists will be able to get another look at the asteroid then, Harwood said, and determine its orbit and trajectory. Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth ...

However, he said that there is "at least 98 percent chance that the asteroid won't hit the Earth. "The other thing to bear in mind is that we can deflect these things. If it's done early enough ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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).

But if it does hit Earth, that would still be really bad, right? Yeah, an asteroid of that size hitting the planet could do a lot of localized damage and be devastating if it exploded over a ...

Nasa says explosion would be 150 times greater than A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima with chances of it smashing into the planet ...