“While there is large uncertainty in whether the asteroid will impact Earth if an impact occurs, it will be on this date,” reads IAWN’s notification, which also stressed that “there is ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first spotted 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024. At that point the asteroid was 515,116 miles (829,000 kilometers) from Earth. The asteroid is ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid ... impact site. It's too soon to know where on Earth that would be, if it happens at all, but the IAWN's Potential Impact ...

You may unsubscribe at any time. The asteroid is rated at a 3 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a tool used for categorizing potential impacts. That means 2024 YR4 merits attention from ...

Feeling lucky? Astronomers say that a newly identified space rock, potentially as big as a football field, has a better than 1% chance of crashing into Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Those odds may seem ...

Those odds may seem pretty good (assuming you're hoping for a miss), but consider this: The International Warning Asteroid ... impact Earth issued its first-ever Potential Asteroid Impact ...

About seven years from now, in 2032, an asteroid orbiting the Sun will fly so close to Earth that it has a little over 1 percent chance of impact. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, stands out as the only ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 using telescopes in Río Hurtado, Chile, part of the NASA-funded Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) facility. The asteroid is estimated to be ...

Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years and it's already triggered international planetary-defense planning. What's the threat level?