February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...
NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...
AstroForge’s Odin, the first private asteroid mission, spins uncontrollably in space. With contact lost and time running out, ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...
Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of ...
The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...
New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a “significant threat” to Earth in 2032 or beyond. ...
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.