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Copyright: © 2025 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. As the Trump administration targets federal public health agencies for mass firings and censorship, a ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

Close call: Earth spared from asteroid impact, but the Moon is at risk NASA warns the asteroid now has a 1.7% chance of hitting our lunar neighbor, a major jump from previous estimates.

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have reduced from the ... is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. It first caught astronomers' attention when it rose on the NASA ...

Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 percent, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. A week ago ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed the 'city-killer', is now expected to safely pass Earth. NASA downgraded the odds of impact from the asteroid, estimated to measure between 40 and 90 metres wide ...

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had a better than 3% chance of striking Earth in 2032 is no longer a concern. The near-Earth object ...

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced "city-killer" asteroid YR4 is unlikely to collide with our planet that month, and has a 99.9961 per cent chance of ...

For context, the moon is 238,855 miles away. While the general public can sleep soundly knowing that 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth, unleashing city-wide devastation, scientists will relish the ...