The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
NASA cuts calculations of asteroid large enough to wipe out a whole city striking Earth in half. The global astronomical ...
The risk of a huge asteroid hitting earth has dropped after NASA reported its highest-ever impact probability for an object ...
Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...
The National Weather Service owns and operates a network of more than 150 weather radar across the United States — systems meant to assess the inside of storms, or offer insights on precipitation ...
The drop in odds had been widely anticipated by the global astronomical community, which now broadly expects the probability ...
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...