NASA has detected an asteroid called 2024 YR4, which has a 1 in 83 chance of impacting Earth in 2032, potentially releasing 8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football ... Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation, depending on where it strikes.

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024. According to researchers , it has about a 1-in-83 chance of impacting our ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

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 ...

HANDOUT / NASA/MAGDALENA RIDGE 2.4M TELESCOPE/NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/RYAN / AFP It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a ...