The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have officially ruled out any threat from a newly discovered ...

Tianwen-2 makes series of burns on approach to asteroid, according to radio tracking  China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has carried out a series of small propulsive maneuvers following a main burn June 7, ...

It seems humanity can breathe a slight sigh of relief for now, as NASA has reduced the chance of a 'city-killer' asteroid colliding with Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 – which was only discovered back in ...

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost doubled. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, which has the highest impact probability on record, with a 1 in 25,000 chance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Well, that was a close one. Just a week after a potentially city-destroying asteroid was upgraded to a heart-palpitating 3 percent ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid could hit the moon or even Earth in 2032. However, in a major update, NASA ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The odds of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting the Earth have increased from ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The asteroid that was determined to be the most significant threat to Earth has now had it's chances of impacting our planet updated by NASA. NASA has ...

An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the planet was ...

A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that there is ...