YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...

A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in ...

There is a website that might tell you how you’re going to die. It’s constantly updated with various potential causes of your death, and their odds. I don’t visit this website regularly, which might ...

The other is asteroid 99942, better known as “Apophis” — named after the Egyptian god of chaos — which may potentially threaten Earth in 2029, 2036 or 2068. 2024 YR4, which is reckoned to ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

This is a higher impact risk to our planet, however, than that of any asteroid since Apophis, which, for a brief while in December 2004, was estimated to have a 2.7 percent chance of hitting our ...

On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached ... the second-highest ever recorded, behind only Apophis, which in 2004 briefly rated a 4.

2024 YR4 isn't the only asteroid on the Torino scale, as initial estimates pegged asteroid 99942 Apophis as a category 4. 99942 Apophis makes 2024 YR4 look like a weakling as Apophis measures a ...