The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

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

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas ...

Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

Five asteroids are expected to make close approaches to Earth this weekend. A large asteroid could pass close ... and 330 feet in diameter and could hit Earth in 2032, according to NASA's Center ...

If an asteroid the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life on Earth, but it would be devastating. At that size, the impact would be equivalent to a “10-megaton bomb,” Tonry ...

That’s why this one now tops ESA’s asteroid risk list. The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth. The good news ...

An asteroid the width of a full-size football pitch could hit Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. A space rock between 40 and 100 metres wide was spotted on Christmas Day by a telescope ...

Astronomers are on high alert once again, as yet another recently discovered asteroid has been estimated by experts to make a direct impact on Earth by the year 2032. This finding is one of the many ...

and how hard it's going to hit," Eric Christensen, the director of the near-Earth object-seeking Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, previously told Mashable. If the asteroid is rocky or rubble-like ...