This stunning volcano footage is just a glimpse of nature’s power—imagine what a city-killing asteroid could do if it struck your home… A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has jumped to the top of ...

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While the identification has triggered international planetary defense measures, experts say that further observations of the asteroid might drop the impact probability down to zero.

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...

It was discovered on December 27 in Chile. As per LiveScience, Nasa’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System spotted the asteroid. As per The Telegraph, it measures between 40 and 100 metres.

2024 YR4 has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032 The asteroid's impact could release energy equal to eight megatons of T Scientists stress ongoing monitoring but say risk may decrease ...

According to ESA and NASA experts, the asteroid is expected to safely pass by Earth, with a nearly 99% probability of avoiding impact. However, further observations in the coming years will be ...

"If we don't find that detection, the impact probability will just move slowly as we add more observations," he said. Earth gets clobbered by an asteroid this size every few thousand years with ...

NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space rock, has a one-in-83 chance (1.2 percent) of striking our planet. But now, the agency's 'Sentry' Earth Impact ...

Future observations of the asteroid will help scientists determine the likelihood of an impact. The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this ...