The asteroid's odds of smacking Earth have gone up in recent days, but that number is not set in stone. There's a lot still ...

NASA is urgently studying asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 1-in-43 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Using the James Webb Telescope ...

Space agencies are monitoring the newly discovered asteroid and still learning more about its size and path, so don't mark your calendar for doomsday just yet. Although the odds of the asteroid ...

As wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall, the asteroid is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet in width. If it were to improbably strike Earth in December 2032, the estimated doomsday ...

Concerns rise over asteroid 2024 YR4, now with a 2.6% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, according to NASA. Initially ...

The asteroid was first spotted in late December ... the formation of a planetary defence force to deal with the possible doomsday scenario.

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The only object to ever receive a higher rating than this was 99942 Apophis, nicknamed the 'doomsday asteroid', which was given a rating of four on the Torino scale. However, after more ...

The asteroid is estimated to measure 40 metres ... Earlier this week, scientists moved the Doomsday Clock a second closer to midnight, warning the end of humanity is closer than ever before.

Sir Newton is not the only one to have made such doomsday predictions. Nostradamus, a French astrologer, who lived in the 1500s, has predicted that 2025 may witness a giant asteroid colliding with ...