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Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032.

The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.

Astronomers are keeping a close watch on a newly discovered near‐Earth asteroid that, while highly unlikely to hit Earth, remains under intense international scrutiny.

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YR4, discovered on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS survey in Chile, has recently garnered attention due to an increased ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

The unassuming asteroid was first spotted in December by scientists at the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

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…Don’t look up. Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid roughly the size of Big Ben will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of this big old space rock, 2024 YR4, striking us was only ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.