YR4 has a chance to crash into the Earth in 2032 when the "mansion-sized" space rock approaches our planet with enough power ...
The asteroid making so much news today ranks as ... a NASA spacecraft proved in 2022 that the basic technology exists to intercept and deflect it before it comes anywhere near us.
In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to nudge an incoming asteroid out of harm's way by slamming a spacecraft into it as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its orbit around its larger companion asteroid.___ ...