The Mirror US recently reported that new chilling photos have come to light of a “city killer” asteroid that has a 1-in-48 chance or 2.1% of smashing into Earth. Classified as 2024 YR4 ...

Science fiction is useful like that ... But in any event, you're calling that asteroid city killer. That would be if it hit somewhere on a land or near a city where the native middle of the ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch ... plan to prevent such a catastrophe, despite Nasa’s sci-fi-sounding Planetary Defence Team, set up to detect hazardous ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, now has a higher chance of smashing into our home planet in 2032, according to NASA.

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in ... an asteroid -- as depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon" -- this would ...

NASA has raised the chances of the city-killing asteroid hitting Earth ... The similarities with the plot of the 1998 sci-fi blockbuster Armageddon were simply too great for some cinema fans ...