But after reaching the top of NASA's asteroid risk list, the chances of YR4, which is estimated to measure 130-300 feet ...

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and ...

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

Scientists have ruled out any significant threat from asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming it will safely pass Earth in 2032.

Some astronomers have described it as a 'city killer' and say it could detonate with hundreds of times the force of the ...

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...