The odds keep growing that an asteroidbig enough to wipe out a citywill collide with Earth in seven years, according to NASA. But the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim. NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, in December 2024, and found it...
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized asa potential "city-killer,"the asteroid was first detected in December and itsodds of impacting our planethav...
To date, no object has ever been rated above level 4. Of the thousands of asteroids detected, there are only two that still have a rating above zero on the Torino scale — and they’re both at Level 1. Those are2011 AG5(year range 2040-2047, impact probability of 1 in 500) and200...
An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city keeps increasing its chances of hitting Earth in seven years, NASA reported.