The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

If the asteroid does enter Earth’s atmosphere ... improved calculations will determine whether this space rock is a near-miss or a real danger. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth ... "Most likely outcome is still a near miss," he added.

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, is estimated to be 58 metres wide and could cause an explosion in the atmosphere or an impact crater on the ground You can save this article by registering for free here.

"Most likely outcome is still a near miss. We continue to track it!" The ESA said it is not currently possible to predict whether the asteroid will strike the Earth, but that more observations ...

But a 1.3 percent chance of a hit is also a 98.7 percent chance of a miss ... Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, four telescopes around the world that hunt near-Earth ...

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth. As the New York Times reports ... "Most likely outcome is still a near miss," he ...

(AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance ... of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies.