An asteroid – ‘2024 YRF’ – discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ALERT) in Chile on December 27, 2024, is being called ‘city destroyer’ by people ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Here’s what would happen if it hits — and why using ...

But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance of collision once associated with an asteroid discovered in 2004 called Apophis, making 2024 YR4 the most significant space rock to be spotted ...

NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now to 1 in 360. NASA announced the first reduced impact risk on its X feed at around 5:00 p.m ...

“When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small, but notable chance of impacting our planet in 2032,” the agency shared on Monday. “As observations of the asteroid continued to be ...

NASA has upgraded the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 3.1 per cent, or about a 1-in-32 chance, the highest odds yet of collision. Astronomers discovered that the asteroid was ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.6 per cent chance of hitting Earth on 22 December, 2032, making it the biggest extra-terrestrial threat in more than two decades. Scientists have calculated ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has reached the highest risk of impact yet, according to both NASA and the European Space Agency, with the agencies estimating a 2.6 percent and 2.4 percent chance respectively ...

For its 10-year anniversary, the Polaris Slingshot got some big upgrades. The wildest tricycle on the planet got more power, better audio, and a host of other changes. Now, Polaris has announced a ...

For those reasons, we named Bangladesh our country of the year in 2024. The global average dropped to a new record low of 5.17, down from a high of 5.55 in 2015. Just 6.6% of the world’s ...

UK-based life science investor Syncona has launched a new company – Slingshot Therapeutics – with a mission to find promising projects in academia and translate them into full-blown ...