At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

Scientists have ruled out any significant threat from asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming it will safely pass Earth in 2032.

Some astronomers have described it as a 'city killer' and say it could detonate with hundreds of times the force of the ...

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...

After months of observations, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to Earth, putting an ...

The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...

University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are helping track an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, including the Canada-France-HawaiʻiTelescope, the ...

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YR4 was recently upgraded to a level three threat on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, but its chances of impact are now nearly ...

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at ...

The latest calculations show Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses next to no threat on impacting Earth. The impact probability was as high as 3.1%, but has now dropped to 0.004%. This decrease comes after ...