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An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

This is nearly 100 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and as large as the Statue of Liberty. An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight ...

The alternative ... What are we learning about the asteroid's destructive potential? Andrews: The damage it could cause would be localized to a roughly city-sized area, so if it hits the middle ...

Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have fluctuated since then, according to NASA and the European Space ...

That is 500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, and the explosion could very well annihilate a whole city. Asteroid 2024 YR4: Recent observations by NASA and ESA NASA and the European ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field ... Such an impact, if it occurred, would have the potential for city-level devastation, depending on where it strikes. Prior to the odds dipping ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied ...

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been reduced to almost zero after new observations dramatically shrunk the “uncertainty window,” according to the European Space Agency.

A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA’s radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

Even though the asteroid is relatively small, it could still be what some are calling a "city killer" because if it were to hit Earth, it could cause significant devastation in a populous area.

A newly discovered asteroid has climbed to the top of ... scientists are closely tracking the space rock, now called "city-killer." Though the rising impact risk might seem alarming, scientists ...