A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

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

Time to breathe a sigh of relief. The asteroid that once posed the greatest impact risk to Earth in recorded history now has an effective 0% chance of striking our planet. The probability of ...

“It’s a city-killer, that’s what it is,” said ... On Monday, March 3, NASA reported there is almost no chance the asteroid would strike the Earth in 2032, but there was a 1.7% chance ...

For a few weeks, the world watched in horror as the probability of a "city killer" asteroid called YR4 hitting Earth crept up and up. At the height of the anxiety, Nasa reportedly feared the ...

Close call: Earth spared from asteroid impact, but the Moon is at risk NASA warns the asteroid now has a 1.7% chance of hitting our lunar neighbor, a major jump from previous estimates.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed the 'city-killer', is now expected to safely pass Earth. NASA downgraded the odds of impact from the asteroid, estimated to measure between 40 and 90 metres wide ...