The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid ... together the orbit and then we'll say, 'Aha, it's this, right?' and 'We think it's at this location or at this ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid ... together the orbit and then we'll say, ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

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If experts want you to know one thing and one thing only about this asteroid, it’s that ... More data about its size, trajectory and orbit will be gathered in the years ahead, especially during ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions ... The debris landed like missiles, digging out two canyons comparable in size to Arizona's Grand Canyon in barely 10 ...