Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood ... Expect more news stories to feature ...

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North ... officially ruled out any threat from a newly discovered asteroid. After months of speculation, NASA and the European Space ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

NASA has updated the impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 ... Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of 'NBC Nightly News' after a decade Here’s the Minimum Salary Required To Be Considered ...

Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December ... the Arabian Sea and South Asia. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood said if it landed in a populated ...

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Last week, Asteroid ... city-killer, that’s what it is,” said Fieber-Beyer, who has spent much of her professional life teaching and studying the composition of asteroids, and described to ...

This equated to about 1% when we reached this threshold for international awareness," Moissl told CBS News ... asteroid, at 40 to 90 meters wide, could be capable of destroying a mid-sized city ...

The asteroid is capable of demolishing an entire city on impact. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid measures between 130 and 300 feet across.

Space agencies have been granted permission to use a giant telescope to discover how much damage a so-called "city-killer" asteroid would cause if it were to hit the Earth. The rare decision comes ...

An asteroid which has a one in 32 chance of hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a city has been caught on camera. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher than 3% chance of hitting the ...