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 ...

An asteroid measuring up to 300 feet may hit into the Earth in 2032, NBC quoted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as saying, adding that the chances of a collision are ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Yes, but it’s yet unclear whether it will actually hit Earth or not. NASA first spotted the asteroid in late 2024. It was reported on Dec. 27 ...

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.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is of a scale to severely damage a city or other population center, said Moissl. But even taking into account the low risk of it hitting Earth, if it did hit Earth, it would be ...

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 ...

NASA officials have discovered a new asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The near-Earth asteroid has been named 2024 YR4 and is estimated to be 40 to 90 meters wide.

NASA scientists have found an asteroid ... if it hits a major city. The impact would unleash an energy equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT-more than 500 times the power of the atomic bomb that ...