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

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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

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

The world’s top astronomers are closely watching an asteroid they say has a 2.3% chance of hitting earth in 2032 - up from ...

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

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 ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most likely be 2024 YR4, a 130-to-300-foot rock that’s essentially the ...

"Some of that intersects the Earth in 2032." But astronomers are playing for time. Soon, the asteroid will be too dim even for the largest ground-based telescopes to see and it's already too far ...

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).