An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs," said Betts. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters ...

Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have increased since then, according to NASA and the European Space Agency.

This is nearly 100 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and as large as the Statue of Liberty. An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight ...

A telescope in Chile has captured footage of Asteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid large enough to wipe out an entire city. While the city-killer asteroid is currently speeding away from Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...

Independent scientists are also weighing in on the onoing hot discussion about asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a little over 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. The fear-inspiring ‘city-killer ...

Here's how the world's space agencies are expected to deal with the ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4's higher chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YRF now has a 2.3% chance of hitting ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with ... Emily Mae Czachor is a news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and ...