but the 3.1% chance it will hit Earth is the highest risk level ever recorded. Thankfully, YR4 is much smaller than the infamous Apophis. The Apophis asteroid was the size of a cruise ship.

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA. The drop in odds had ...

The asteroid is an object of interest in terms of planetary defense because it is large enough that it would cause localized damage in the unlikely event that it hit Earth, according to NASA.

Based on its current known size, the impact of a hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4 would result in the equivalent of a 7.7-megaton blast, CNEOS estimates. (The nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 had ...

The highest estimate, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, suggested a 3.1% chance the asteroid will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, during a fleeting window of time in which the rock's orbit around ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Science enthusiasts are closely watching asteroid 2024 YR4, the most hazardous asteroid ever detected. Westmont College physics professor emeritus Ken Kihlstrom said the ...

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded ...