A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week. The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by ...

you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” said Betts. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters ...

Scientists are closely monitoring asteroid YR4, which has a small chance of impacting Earth. Could it pose a real threat?

but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city ...

Scientists have warned that a newly discovered 'city-destroying' asteroid has a chance of smashing into Earth in the next decade. The nearly 200-foot-wide space rock, labeled 2024 YR4, has a 1.2 ...