An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

And while it's unlikely to wipe out humanity, it could take out a city. The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.

“You may have seen news of this asteroid online in recent davs,” said Richard Moissi, Head of the European Space Agency’s Planetary Defence Office. “There is no chance of this “city ...