In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

The asteroid, estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. It first caught astronomers' attention when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list ...

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been reduced to almost zero after new observations dramatically shrunk the “uncertainty window,” according to the European Space Agency.

But now, the latest update for the city-killer asteroid has delivered an audible sigh of relief as its chances of hitting Earth in 2032 have dropped to virtually zero. When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 percent, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. A week ago ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

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It has now been downgraded to zero. The asteroid, discovered in December, measures between 40 and 90 metres across. A direct impact could devastate a city, but calculations now suggest it will ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...

UK VFX group Jellyfish Pictures, which has credits on such projects as Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the upcoming series of ...

The asteroid that once posed the greatest impact ... can sleep soundly knowing that 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth, unleashing city-wide devastation, scientists will relish the opportunity to study ...