According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...
Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 1.9% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, but NASA said there's nothing to be worried about.
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object ... corridor for the asteroid “extends across the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian ...
NASA has released the first video of asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot-wide space rock that has a 1.3% chance of striking Earth ...